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

Hi, this is Wayne Callan for Attitude magazine. Today's topic, I know what I need to do, but I just don't do it, is something we can all relate to. It is frustrating and maddening when we wake up with

the best of intentions to get pressing things done only to find that we haven't done them

by the day's end. We need a better game plan and I think

we will have it by the end of this webinar. We are very fortunate to have Jay Russell

Ramsey, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania

Perlman School of Medicine.

He is also co-author, along with Anthony Rothstein, of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD.

Welcome Dr. Ramsey, good to have you here today.

Thanks so much for having me back and thank you to everybody who is joining in today and the last time I had an opportunity to speak on an attitude webinar.

It was specifically around procrastination and I probably unwittingly use the same title.

I know what I need to do but I just don't do it.

So today's going to be an extension of that where we talk about some of the basic coping strategies that we all know that we've all heard about,

but how do we use these skills, actually implement them to turn our intentions and actions to turn the

plans into behavior.

So hopefully we'll put a new spin or a new shine on some old standards.

As always, being a psychologist, there's a lot that goes into human behavior,

including with, for working with adults with ADHD, but ultimately when people walk out of the

room at the end of the session or finish up treatment, they probably want to know that

they're going to be able to do those reasonable things

that they set out to do. So what gets in the way with ADHD of just easily doing

what we want to do.

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