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Many children with ADHD have difficulties with organization, time management and planning skills.  Difficulties in these organizational skills cause significant problems with daily functioning at home and school, and lead to conflict within the family.  This course will focus on the assessment of organizational skills difficulties in children, the rationale for treatment, and the development of an evidence-based treatment for enhancing children’s organizational functioning, called Organizational Skills Training (OST).  Participants will learn about the essential components of OST and how to use the published treatment manual to address their clients’ organizational difficulties.

Differential diagnosis is at the heart of every initial clinical encounter and is the beginning of every treatment plan. In community mental health centers, diagnostic clarity is often impacted by chronic psychosocial stressors and complex clinical presentations, and clinicians are tasked with bridging the gap between accurate diagnostic assessment and practical community care. This course aims to help bridge this gap by providing a streamlined, six step blueprint for diagnostic assessment from the DSM-5-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis and introducing clinicians to additional available diagnostic tools, such as the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 (SCID-5). Through lecture and interactive case vignettes, participants will learn how to systematically rule out competing diagnoses and navigate overlapping symptom presentations most commonly seen in community mental health care settings.