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After-School Program

The CHP after-school model is staffed by graduate and undergraduate students who work collaboratively with researchers, students, teachers, and parents to provide research-based psychosocial interventions to middle school students with ADHD. Interventions focus on fostering the acquisition of a wide range of skills that are particularly helpful for these adolescents, including organization, note-taking and study skills, interpersonal and conversation skills, sportsmanship, and building positive relationships with peers, siblings and adults. This program also includes a family component that supports parent efforts to reinforce skills their children acquire in the program and to develop good homework practices. Designed to assist middle school students over the course of the school year, this program runs after school for 2 1/2 hours, 3 days a week. The program functions much like a research laboratory in which interventions can be tested, tweaked and reformulated. The overall efficacy of interventions are regularly evaluated, but this program also includes case studies of individual students and their success with particular interventions. The program is on-going and therefore yields longitudinal data that contributes to our understanding of the long-term outcomes of treatment.