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Facilitators Session 1

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Session 1: Introduction
1. Facilitators will introduce the context of each session to participants by explaining objectives of each session in a language of which elementary school children can understand.
2. Facilitators will explain why group sessions are being held and their importance to therapy.
3. Facilitators will introduce the basics of ADHD. Facilitators will explain ADHD in brief detail in very elementary language.
4. Activity 1: Icebreaker – Working together towards a common goal of building a card house with a specific amount of cards. Participants will be paired with another peer in the group and will be given 12 playing cards. Both participants must build a sturdy card house using only the cards given to them. The objective of …show more content…

Facilitators will determine what each participant believes ADHD is and how it affects him or her in the following environments: school, home, and with friends.
2. Facilitators will determine the level of knowledge each participant has about ADHD.
3. Activity: All participants will pair up with a different peer than the previous weeks where they will make a list of feelings, thoughts, behaviors, and struggles they face across all environments such as school, home, with friends. Can be considered like a brainstorming exercise.
Session 4: Identifying Relationships
1. Participants will describe what an appropriate peer relationship looks like. For example, each student, group member, will describe what is an appropriate peer relationship to them and give examples on that.
2. Participants will identify possible situations that will foster positive friendships and are favorable for negative friendships.
3. Activity: Role-play where participants will act out situations with another peer relating to both positive and negative peer friendships. The Adlerian therapy model will be used as a foundation for this activity.
Session 5: Impulse Control
1. Facilitators will ask participants to identify behaviors and characteristics commonly seen in

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