Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hi I'm Susan Kaufman and you're listening to Attitude magazine's ADHD

experts audio. Today's webinar is about procrastination. It's the vein of

existence for many adults with ADHD and as Dr Russell Ramsey our

guest today points out the hallmark of adult ADHD procrastination may just be

this phrase or one like it hey I know what I need to do but I just don't do it.

Dr Ramsey is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania's

Perlman School of Medicine where he is the co-director and the co-founder of the adult

ADHD treatment and research program.

His program has been in existence for over 15 years and he has worked with hundreds and

hundreds of adults and college students to manage

procrastination and cognitive function problems.

He's a specialist in cognitive behavior therapy for adults of ADHD and the author of two very interesting forthcoming books.

One for professionals, cognitive behavior therapy for adult ADHD.

This is the second edition of a professional treatment manual on that topic and for the rest of us ordinary folks

a patient guidebook to cognitive behavior therapy it's called the adult ADHD toolkit Dr, thank you so much for joining us today.

We're very grateful for your time and let me turn it over to you.

Great, well thanks so much.

In a nutshell, I just want to talk about some of what goes on neurobiologically that can make follow-through

more difficult for folks with ADHD, hence the focus on procrastination today which seems to be, there's a lot of different coping skills, organization time management, but for us at Penn, procrastination really seems to be at like a meeting point where a lot of them come together in terms of real world problems.

So just want to give a template for how do we understand procrastination.

Also want to talk about how we conceptualize how do we understand procrastination.

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