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187. Raising a Child with ADHD, with Russell Barkley

Psychologists Off the Clock

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The Importance of Internal Motivation in ADHD Children

I think what the question gets at this is a question from a friend of mine who has a child with ADHD but so we did an episode with Jessica Leahy who wrote the gift of failure and it's all about building intrinsic motivation. What she really strongly and very explicitly says is reduce the external reinforcers in order to build internal motivation for kids with ADHD that's why it's a disorderYeah I agree and I'm so glad you point that out because what I'm not saying that you should be doing this for a typical child in fact as you know if you start rewarding typical children for things they enjoy doing you may replace the intrinsic reward with the external one. Once you pull the external

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