Certificate in Understanding ADHD

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Level

All Levels
Duration

6 hours
Enrollment validity

Enrollment validity: 90 days
Certificate

Certificate of completion

Modules:

Module 1 “Let’s Start at the Beginning” – Understanding ADHD Beyond the Diagnosis
This module sets the tone for the whole course by clearing up common myths and offering a realistic, compassionate overview. We look at how ADHD can shape attention, motivation, memory, and emotion across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. You will hear why many people are missed in early life, why diagnosis can feel both relieving and unsettling, and how strengths often sit right beside struggles. The aim is simple. Replace blame with understanding, and build a shared language that parents, professionals, and people with ADHD themselves can use in everyday conversations.

Video Lesson

04:58
Reflective Exercise

Module 2 – “Neurobiology in Plain English – What’s Happening Under the Hood?”
Here we walk through the brain systems most involved in ADHD, using clear, practical language. You will learn how dopamine and noradrenaline influence attention and reward, why focus often follows interest, novelty, or urgency, and how mind wandering can persist even when you want to concentrate. We touch on medication in balanced terms, and we explore non-drug supports such as visible reminders, structured routines, and body-based check-ins. Traditional still meditation can be difficult for many people with ADHD, so we also suggest accessible alternatives, for example mindful walking or light movement while noticing sensations.

Module 3 – The Invisible Load – Executive Function, Emotion, and Energy
ADHD often feels like carrying a backpack that others cannot see. We unpack what sits inside that bag. Executive function challenges that scatter plans and priorities. Emotional intensity that rises fast and fades fast. Energy that peaks and crashes in ways that confuse families and colleagues. You will learn how these three elements interact across a day, why validation matters, and which external supports reduce decision fatigue. We include simple practices that respect ADHD realities, such as short movement breaks, realistic time estimates, and gentle awareness of body signals rather than perfectionistic self-control.

Module 4. Out of Sight, Out of Mind? — Object & Emotional Impermanence
This session explains why important items vanish the moment they leave view, and why the felt sense of connection can drop away between contacts. We translate working memory differences into everyday examples, then offer solutions that do not rely on willpower. Transparent storage, visual docking stations by doors, phone prompts that pop up at the right moment, and brief check-in rituals that prevent key losses. For emotions, we show how reassurance works as a practical reset rather than a sign of neediness. Couples and families get language for “connection pings,” and individuals learn fast ways to rebuild a feeling that slipped out of reach.

Module 5. Hidden Layers – Lesser-Known ADHD Traits That Matter
ADHD includes patterns that rarely appear in diagnostic lists yet shape daily life. We cover time blindness, hyperfocus that can help or hinder, sensory sensitivity to noise, light, and textures, verbal impulsivity, creative idea bursts, sleep pattern differences, and empathic intensity. Each section pairs a brief explanation with workable supports, such as visual countdowns for time, alarms that create safe exits from hyperfocus, clothing and sound choices that reduce sensory strain, and weekly capture sessions that turn ideas into plans. The goal is to reduce shame and build systems that fit the brain you have.

Module 6. When Worlds Collide: ADHD and Common Comorbidities
Many people with ADHD also meet criteria for anxiety, depression, learning differences, autism, sleep disorders, or substance use problems. Overlap is common, and it can hide the core picture. We explain how to spot patterns that belong to ADHD, what may be driven by mood or trauma, and when both are involved. You will learn why timelines matter, why sleep needs attention, and how integrated plans work best. Medication, therapy, environmental changes, and school or workplace accommodations can be combined thoughtfully. Labels are used here as maps to resources, not as fixed identities.

Module 7. Rejection Sensitivity: What We Know, What We Don’t, and Why It Matters
Many people with ADHD describe sharp pain at criticism or exclusion. The term RSD is popular online, yet the formal research base is limited and sometimes self-referential. We hold both truths. The experience is real, and it often grows from years of correction and social shame rather than being an inherent, proven feature of ADHD. You will learn body-level skills for riding out the first surge, ways to separate feedback about behaviour from judgments about the self, and options for trauma-informed therapy when past experiences keep the alarm set too high. The emphasis is on relief through skills, not on labels.

Module 8. Is It Trauma or ADHD? …and How Masking Blurs the Lines
This final module helps you tell interest based attention from threat based hypervigilance, and shows how masking can make both hard to spot. We compare typical ADHD patterns such as time blindness and novelty seeking with common trauma responses such as startle, shutdown, and people pleasing. You will learn simple tests that guide next steps, for example whether structure plus engagement improves function, or whether safety work must come first. We treat masking as a strategy that protects in some settings and exhausts in others, and we focus on choice. Unmask where it is safe, keep supports where they help, and build environments that welcome the authentic self.

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