ADDADHD REVIEW

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ADD/ADHD REVIEW

• Disorder that is managed and not cured
• Requires skill building
• Focus on long term outcomes
• Focus on mastery of self
• Confidence
• esteem
• efficacy
• resilience
• Develop tools to be used throughout a lifetime
• Harness positive life skills
• Focus on the strengths of persons with ADD/ADHD
• Intelligent
• High energy
• Creative

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Why EAP for ADD

• Experiential
• Observation
• Client
• Therapist/ES
• Reflection
• Client
• Therapist/ES
• Feedback
• Deliberate and right away
• Client
• Horse
• Therapist/ES

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Why EAP and ADD/ADHD

• ADD/ADHD clients are motorically driven
• difficulty with sitting still
• never crawled
• went straight to running
• ADHD people are kinesthetic learners
• EAP is kinesthetic by its very design
• Maximizes learning potential through experiential
  and hands on experiences
• Individuals can create healthy ideas and attitudes

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Why EAP and ADD/ADHD

• EAP
• keeps clients engaged the entire time
• environment requires them to pay attention to all
  aspects of the horse
• learn how to shift attention quickly and stay on
  task
• keep track of all aspects of the horse in a
  manner that is safe and productive.
• Harness unique skills and attributes
• Horses command attention by their very presence

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Why EAP and ADD/ADHD

• Horses are there in the moment
• Provide experiences that can be taken back to
  real life.
• Particularly in the areas of concentration,
  disorganization, mood lability, impulsive
  behavior, self control and stress intolerance.
• Horse(s) will let you know when this happens and
  the situation allows for one to figure out how to
  resolve and get back in with the horse/herd with
  positive reinforcement
• Learn cues that are translatable into real life
  (ex signal breaths)
• Individuals can create healthy ideas and
  attitudes through creative learning
• Mind and body are jointly engaged in the learning

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GOALS of Therapy

• Maximize function
• Focus on strengths
• Identify deficiencies and re-harness them or
  re-structure them
• Improve relationships
• Improve school and professional performance
• Decrease disruptive behaviors/moments

• Promote safety
• Increase independence
• Improve self-esteem
• Improve self-confidence
• Improve self efficacy
• Improve resilience
• Improve problem solving
• Improve identification of cues in environment
• Improve social skills/dynamics family, friends,
  school

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EAP Exercise Examples

• Observation
• Catch and halter
• Leading
• Ground tie
• Grooming
• Move the horse Forward
• Lifes little Obstacles

• Longeing
• Keep away
• Building Blocks
• Sandman
• Back Off
• Backing Up
• Measuring Exercise