ADHD in Diverse Populations: Strategies to Treat Adults, Kids & Collaborate with Care Teams

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Brandi Walker, PhD Related seminars and products

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Brandi Walker, PhD, has an earnest desire to further what is known about ADHD and provide therapeutic expertise and researched-informed support to families that are impacted. She is a Howard University and University of Maryland alumni and an Army Clinical Psychologist and faculty member at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, NC. Brandi is an active-duty Major who works directly with service member and their families, in addition to developing initiatives and collaborations that are in sync with the Army’s Holistic Health and Fitness programming.

Brandi has spent the last 7 years working with various hospitals, clinics and schools conducting research on children with ADHD, their family and various sleep variables, and environmental factors of influence. Dr. Walker’s community efforts entail collaboratively initiating the Prince George’s County (Maryland) CHADD (Children and Adults with ADHS) Chapter and CHADD’s Southern Regional Support Center. Brandi also focuses attention and advocacy to diversity, inclusion, equity, and intersectionality awareness training and practices. She serves as acting chair and chair past of the Diversity in the Military Committee, of the APA’s Society of Military Psychology and also serves as the ECP (early career psychologist) on the Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Sub-Specialties in Professional Psychology (CRSPPP) of the APA.

Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Dr. Brandi Walker is the founder and CEO of Villages Overcoming Intersections, and has employment relationships with Innsightful Inc., Marie Pauline Consulting LLC., Howard University, and Villages Overcoming Intersections. She receives a consulting fee from Power AHEAD Otsuka Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Walker receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Dr. Brandi Walker is a member of the American Professional Society for ADHD and Related Disorders, the National Register of Health Service Psychologists, and the American Massage Therapy Association.

Objectives

1. Analyze health disparities as they pertain to ADHD diagnoses within socially diverse populations.
2. Evaluate the health, mental health, and social problems that result from assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of ADHD when health disparities are present.
3. Investigate current research studies and their findings.
4. Develop understanding of the diversity in family dynamics and its influence on treatment/interventions and quality of life outcomes for clients with ADHD.
5. Apply a transcultural model to assessment and treatment of ADHD .

Outline

• Overcome historical mistrust and distrust
• Contextuality & what it means for clinicians
• How intersectional identities impact therapy
• Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model
• Racial socialization

• Foster trust across culture lines
• Be a catalyst for hope
• Cultivate consistency
• Acculturation and assimilation

• Know the risk factors
• Explore the potential health outcomes
• Understand assessment biases & learn alternatives
• What prevents diagnosis when it’s appropriate?
• Trauma & common comorbidities 

• Impact of untreated ADHD
• 7 Essential steps for clinical care 
• Evaluate racial socialization/ethnic stress
• ADHD & incarceration
• Resource sharing
• BioPsychoSocialSpiritualStrengths Model
• Understand family dynamics & support families more

• Wesley & Mom – 2nd grader, father incarcerated; 27 years old, three kids, new relationship
• Shayla – 17th year old, Latina & caibbean female, middle class, “behaviour & academic” problems
• Marcel – 18 year old, African American Female, parents divorced, first year in college
• Anna – 26 year old, pacific Islander, transgender, bullying, anxiety, depression
• Marvin – 32 years old, 2nd generation Lantix American, low-income, career struggles

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Teachers
• School Administrators
• Addiction Counselors
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Nurses
• Physicians