30 Essential Ideas you should know about ADHD, 3A The Five Executive Functions

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More similar videos available at my blog http://adhdvideosandinfo.blogspot.com/ You can watch the original video in full here for free http://www.caddac.ca/cms/video/parents_player.html CADDAC website where you can buy the DVD. Please support CADDAC http://www.caddac.ca Five Executive Abilities that all people have but ADHD people are deficit/delayed in. 1) Can you stop? Self-restraint. A quote “Everything comes to those who can wait!” Can you delay your behavior so you can do the best action? 2) The Mind’s Eye. Mental Imagery. You will recall the relevant past and use the past to do better behavior in the future. ADHD people can’t do this. You lack hindsight, and without hindsight you can do foresight. 3) The Mind’s Voice. You can’t talk to yourself, internally. Starting at the age of five you can separate what you do with what you think, you now have a “voice in your head “to help control your body so you can do better actions that affect your body and your brain. 4) The Mind’s Heart. The ability to manage your emotions so your body and mind work towards your long term best interest. 5) The Mind’s Playground. The ability to imagine dozens of possible futures and pick the best one with the best perceived results. Since you can’t perceive the future well due to the mind’s eye, and you have a working memory problem it is so hard to use the Mind’s Playground to his best abilities. Not covered in this video, but in the years since the video Barkley has added another executive function which is a combination and expansion of all the previous executive functions. This 6 executive function is the mind awareness of itself. http://www.continuingedcourses.net/active/courses/course069.php The 6th executive function is 6) The Mind’s Awareness of Itself, especially through time and space. Self-Awareness of what is happening to you in the past, the present, and will happen to you in the future. This is actually the first thing toddlers learn, how itself interacts with the environment but it is also the last executive function to fully develop for the perception of time and the future self is still developing even in your late twenties. Originally number 6 was part of the number 2 (the Mind’s Eye and the ability to do hindsight and foresight) but Barkley eventually thinks it needs its own point, for it is so much more than just visualization. It is your sense of TIME, you get so wrapped in things that you lose track of time, you do not have an objective idea of time, it is so subjective and so often wrong with predicting what the future is going to be. For more videos and info from ADHD Experts check out my blog at http://adhdvideosandinfo.blogspot.com/