The CBT Workbook for Adult ADHD: Evidence-Based Exercises to Improve Your Focus, Productivity, and Wellbeing

by Kristen Baird-Goldman

Grow your executive functioning skills with CBT for ADHD

Living with ADHD can be challenging--especially as an adult--but cognitive behavioral therapy can help! This friendly and encouraging workbook examines the most common obstacles that ADHD adults encounter in their personal and professional lives and offers CBT-based techniques for navigating them successfully.



Get to know your brain--Start with a clear overview of how ADHD manifests in adults, and the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that influence your symptoms.

Dive into CBT--Learn what makes CBT such a powerful approach for managing ADHD, and explore simple exercises to help build organizational skills, emotional regulation, and confidence.

Feel seen and understood--Find reassuring advice and proven coping strategies from a licensed therapist who specializes in ADHD and lives with ADHD herself.


Achieve greater focus, flexibility, and self-esteem with The CBT Workbook for Adult ADHD.

Genres: Adhd, Psychology, Self Help, Mental Health, Health

229 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 6, 2022

Reviews

[Neena Malosky · Rating 2 out of 5]

As an Adult with ADHD who has also been in therapy for a long time, I was excited to see a workbook including some of the strategies that have worked for me. I was looking forward to learning more strategies. I didn’t care for the author’s tone in some of the pages such as one that speaks of “so called time blindness” and recommending a smart watch as the answer. ADHD is so often minimized and generalized. This is one of the examples where I felt the author also did this. This book provides many charts and checklist that could be very useful. This book could be good for someone who is very knowledgeable about these practices and need checklists etc. But I wouldn’t recommend using it without a therapist for someone newly diagnosed, or someone who hasn’t done a lot of work in self acceptance.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

[Arvenig · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you Callisto Media and Netgalley for the arc!

I decided to read this book even though I personally don’t have adhd, but a close person to me does and after going through the workbook I‘ll buy it for them.

In my opinion you could use this for anything, obviously it has some things only about adhd, but it goes through controlling impulsivity and other things that i should work on!

It’s really well done, at the end of each chapter it has a bullet point takeaways
and there are also some quizzes to understand yourself better.

I love the concept of cbt in general and this was the perfect way to put it in a book!

[Amber Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I put this in my Amazon cart long ago hoping it could be another tool I used to relive my ADHD symptoms.

The term “workbook” I assumed meant it would be a book with exercises to complete within the book after some reading. I was disappointed to find out that it was just a regular book and not a workbook.

Leaving three stars because I feel misled and really wanted an exercise based CBT for ADHD book but some of the ideas in the book were still very good.

[MookNana · Rating 5 out of 5]

What I appreciated most about this book was that it acknowledged the pain, shame, and trauma that often comes with living with ADHD, especially if undiagnosed until adulthood. Dealing with these feelings and the accompanying self-esteem issues is absolutely essential to thriving with ADHD and they're so often overlooked or ignored. The tone of this workbook is very affirming and sensitive to the actual person trying to navigate the world, not just the cluster of symptoms and challenges.

There was a nice mix of thought exercises, journal prompts, and participatory activities, including a few I hadn't seen before like a breath-holding exercise to explore discomfort tolerance and a responsibility wheel to help reframe thoughts around life events. What's nice is that each section can be broken down into very small chunks, and there's no need to work through in any particular order--very accommodating for the ADHD brain! There was perhaps an opportunity to include more (perhaps even a whole section) about relationship and interpersonal skills, but the focus on the self is a nice foundation for future growth. This is an excellent resource for teens and adults living with ADHD!

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

[wonderfullyweird88 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I work as a therapist and chose to review this book to see if the exercises would be beneficial for clients I work with. The CBT skills are not just helpful for ADHD management but a wide variety of issues that people face in daily life.

This book is something that I would use for homework or recommend to someone who has been in therapy for some time. The exercises may not have the same impact to someone newly diagnosed or who has not had therapy experience.

I received an arc of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

[Ellen Bossink · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great book to help you think about ADHD and how to act to it. Diagnosed at age 53 it can possible help me but I think it should be hand out by professional adhd coaches. To answer questions is one thing but adhd people are likely to do it quick and need to be questioned out by a coach.
I really think this workbook is a great asset for a coach or psychologist to hand out to the add/adhd patient.

[Lauren · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an interesting book filled with well-structured and written exercises. I really liked how the first portion of this book discussed what adult ADHD really is and how it can impact your life and then also discussed what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is. This book had a lot of helpful strategies and I really took away a lot of good skills. I really liked how each chapter focused on an aspect of ADHD and skills to build to support yourself. Great for those of us with ADHD.

[Jimmy Henderson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Apparently the solution to ADHD is to overload your brain with busywork…???

Look, I know CBT can be helpful with compartmentalizing tasks and dealing with comorbidities, and I do think there is some valuable stuff there… But the sheer amount of scheduling, writing, logging, timing, and spending this workbook is suggesting makes me think that the author hasn’t actually ever met someone with ADHD.

[Joni Owens · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely helpful workbook. I’ve already recommended this to a few of my friends. I felt seen after reading the first part. I can’t wait to work through this workbook.