Topic
Attention & focus
Attention is a limited resource, and many things compete for it all the time: screens, notifications, tasks that keep being interrupted. The resources in this topic explain how concentration works and why we put things off, then offer practical strategies for working, studying and using screens more deliberately. The manuals for professionals cover problematic screen use and ADHD.
9 resources
For the public
Stop putting it off: procrastination
The file opened and closed again, the email read four times and never answered, the envelope that has been sitting on the hall table for three weeks. Procrastination is neither laziness nor simply poor organisation: it is a way of escaping, right now, the discomfort a task stirs up, and paying for it later. This guide explains that mechanism and offers a step-by-step method, for studying as well as for work.
Taking back control of your attention
You open your phone without having decided to, you lose track of what you were doing, and you end the day feeling you held on to nothing. This programme helps you understand what captures your attention, reduce the cost of interruptions, and decide what your tools are there to do for you.
Screens and social media: a guide for parents
What the research actually shows about screens and social media, age by age, without scaremongering or complacency. Sleep, attention, body image, bullying, video games, the first phone, and the family rules that really hold up over time.
How to study better
Re-reading, highlighting, copying out revision notes: the most common methods give the feeling of learning without making anything stick. This programme explains what research has established about memory and understanding, and turns it into concrete techniques for lessons, languages, exams and training courses.
Helping your child study better
Homework that turns into a battle, lessons learned the night before and forgotten the next day, the question of whether to help or step back. This guide explains what a parent can really change, how to help a child revise differently, how to support reading and maths, and when a difficulty deserves professional advice.
For professionals
These manuals are written for psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners. Anyone can read a preview; the full text is reserved for practitioners who have submitted proof of their professional status and who hold a professional plan.
Treating screen dependence in adolescents: a therapist's manual
A protocol of fourteen sessions with the adolescent and six with the parents, session by session. The safety screen first — bullying, intimate images, grooming, gambling — then the diagnostic sorting, sleep, the household environment, school, and rules negotiated rather than imposed. What the classifications say, what they do not say, common mistakes, worksheets to hand the adolescent, and full references.
Treating screen dependence in adults: a therapist's manual
A fourteen-session protocol, session by session: to begin with, the diagnostic sorting — in many patients another disorder is present, to be treated first or alongside — then ambivalence, the environment changed with the device in hand, replacing the time freed up, sleep, and tolerance of boredom. What the classifications say, what they do not say, common mistakes, worksheets to hand the patient, and full references.
Treating ADHD in adults: a therapist's manual
A protocol of fourteen sessions, session by session, built on the cognitive and behavioural therapies evaluated in adult ADHD. Diagnostic sorting and the retrospective diagnosis first, then feedback, explaining the disorder, the external system of capture and planning, time estimation, getting started, procrastination, emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, work, the people close to the patient, and the repair of a self-image damaged by twenty years of reproach. The place of medication stated clearly, detailed conduct of external organisation, worksheets to hand the patient, and full references.
Treating ADHD in children: a therapist's manual
A protocol of twelve sessions with the parents and six with the child, session by session, built on the behavioural and organisational interventions recommended in childhood ADHD. Multi-informant assessment and diagnostic sorting first, then feedback, explaining the disorder to the family and to the child, positive attention, instructions, the external frame, immediate consequences, homework, mornings and evenings, impulsivity and school. The place of medication stated clearly, detailed conduct of external organisation and of school collaboration, worksheets to hand the family, and full references.
Other topics
- Addictions10
- ADHD6
- Anxiety34
- Autism4
- Children & parents35
- Depression & mood25
- Eating disorders4
- Emotions24
- Gender identity1
- Grief7
- Loneliness5
- Longevity5
- Mindfulness1
- Neurocognitive disorders3
- OCD7
- Personality disorders12
- Psychosis8
- Relationships14
- Self-esteem7
- Sleep12
- Stress & burnout10
- Studying3
- Tics & Tourette1
- Trauma10
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