Coaching College Students with Executive Function Problems

Although executive function difficulties are often addressed in school-age children, there are few resources showing how to help these individuals when they are older. This book presents a dynamic coaching model that helps college students become self-regulated learners by improving their goal-setting, planning, time management, and organisational skills.

Ideal for use with students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities, acquired brain injury, and other challenges, Mary R. T. Kennedy's approach incorporates motivational interviewing and emphasises practical problem solving.

User-friendly features include numerous concrete examples, sample dialogues, and print and online resource listings. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book contains 21 reproducible forms. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials for repeated use.

Table of Contents

Foreword, McKay Moore Sohlberg

I. Foundations

1. Executive Functions and Self-Regulation
2. College Students with Executive Function Problems
3. Military Service Members and Veterans in College

II. Dynamic Coaching

4. A Dynamic Coaching Approach
5. Information Gathering and Collaborative Planning
6. Coaching Self-Management and Self-Learning: Goals–Strategies–Act–Adjust
7. Coaching Self-Advocacy
8. Coaching toward Independence

"This well-crafted book provides theoretical and practical guidance to professionals who want to help students with executive dysfunction succeed in college. Kennedy combines extensive scholarly work and clinical experience to describe a dynamic coaching approach that supports students in self-assessing and problem solving to achieve their goals. The volume includes numerous tools, guides, and resources for rehabilitation professionals in higher education settings, where self-regulation and self-management skills are particularly important."
- Mary Vining Radomski, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Senior Scientific Adviser, Courage Kenny Research Center, Minneapolis

"What an amazing resource! Kennedy's dynamic coaching model is presented in depth and accompanied by extensive hands-on advice. In addition to the insightful chapters containing helpful real-world examples, this volume is chock-full of ready-to-use forms, tables, and diagrams to assist the practitioner. There is a special chapter on working with service members and veterans. This unique book belongs on the shelves of everyone whose practice includes students or prospective students with cognitive impairments."
- Tessa Hart, PhD, Director, Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Research Laboratory, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute

"Engaging and a pleasure to read. College campuses are struggling to figure out how to serve growing numbers of students with executive functionproblems. This is a highly useful guide for the many health care and disability providers who work on college campuses, as well as educators who train them."
- Cynthia Fuller, PhD, Associate Director of Student Access, Disability Resource Center, University of Minnesota