490- Sandwich Generation Stress: How to Manage ADHD in Yourself, Your Children, and Your Elderly Parents
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Caregivers in the "sandwich generation" face added demands and stress when managing ADHD in themselves, their children, and their aging parents. Danna McDonald, RMFT-SQ, RSW, shares strategies to address these challenges.
Sandwich Generation Stress: More Resources
- Symptom Test: 10 Questions to Reveal Parental Burnout
- Read: Never Good Enough: The Emotional Toll of Motherhood
- Understand: The Genetic Underpinnings of ADHD
- Understand: Epigenetics and ADHD: The Impacts of Environment, Lifestyle, and Stress
- Blog Post: “Let Me Tell You How ADHD Runs in My Family”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi everyone my name is Annie Rogers and on behalf of the attitude team I'm so |
| 0:19.2 | pleased to welcome you to today's ADHD experts presentation titled, |
| 0:25.0 | Squeezed in the Sandwich Generation |
| 0:28.1 | How to Manage ADHD in your children |
| 0:32.1 | as well as your. in your parents. |
| 0:35.0 | as your parents. |
| 0:37.0 | And today we are so pleased to have with us, Dana McDonald, who will be leading today's conversation. |
| 0:48.0 | Dana is a registered marriage and family therapist and a registered social worker in Canada. |
| 0:55.0 | She is supervising, qualifying with the Canadian Association |
| 0:59.6 | of Marriage and Family and a counselor |
| 1:02.4 | at the University of Manitoba. |
| 1:05.0 | Her areas of clinical expertise include eating disorders, self-compassion, |
| 1:11.0 | emotion-focused family therapy, mindfulness, trauma, and systems work. |
| 1:20.3 | So today, Dana is going to talk to us about the impact of ADHD across generations and specifically how to survive as the proverbial jam in the sandwich. |
| 1:36.0 | And that is the caregiver for neurodivergent children |
| 1:40.0 | and neurodivergent parents, as well as yourself. |
| 1:44.3 | As you might imagine, we're gonna touch today |
| 1:47.0 | on executive function challenges, emotional dysregulation, |
| 1:51.2 | overwhelm, and much more. |
| 1:54.4 | As one registrant for today's event said, |
| 1:57.8 | wrote to us in the registration, |
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