Training at ADHD Direct

At ADHD Direct, we are proud to offer a range of specialist ADHD training programmes designed for professionals across a variety of sectors. Our training supports organisations working with children, young people, and adults to better understand ADHD and develop practical approaches that improve outcomes in real-world settings.

Our sessions are evidence-based, clinically informed, and grounded in practical experience, helping professionals move beyond common misconceptions and gain a clearer understanding of how ADHD presents in everyday environments.

We deliver training across a number of industries, including education, healthcare, social care, and workplace settings, with courses tailored to the specific challenges and responsibilities within each field. Whether supporting teachers in the classroom, clinicians in healthcare environments, or practitioners working in community and care services, our training focuses on strategies that can be applied immediately in practice.

Our goal is to equip professionals with the knowledge, confidence, and tools needed to better support individuals with ADHD throughout their lives.

Employees with ADHD often bring creativity, innovation, energy, problem-solving ability, and fresh ways of thinking to an organisation. However, without understanding and support, they may also face unnecessary barriers that affect confidence, performance, and retention.

This training helps workplaces move beyond assumptions and develop a more informed, compassionate, and effective approach.

A better understanding of ADHD can lead to:

• • stronger communication

• • improved staff wellbeing

• • better retention and productivity

• • greater confidence for managers

• • a more inclusive and supportive working culture

Booking information

Ready to take the next step in building a more inclusive and productive workplace?

You can now book our Understanding ADHD in the Workplace course and equip your team with the knowledge and practical tools to better support neurodivergent colleagues.

Understanding and supporting children and adults with ADHD in Social Care

Why this course matters

Many children and adults in social care settings have experienced misunderstanding, repeated criticism, exclusion, or breakdown in relationships. For those with ADHD, this can be made worse when their behaviour is repeatedly judged without their underlying difficulties being recognised.

A better understanding of ADHD can help professionals:

• • build stronger relationships

• • reduce escalation and conflict

• • improve stability in care settings

• • recognise unmet need earlier

• • support emotional wellbeing

• • respond more effectively to risk and vulnerability

• • improve long-term outcomes

This is not just about behaviour management.

It is about understanding the person behind the behaviour.

What attendees will gain

By the end of the course, attendees will have:

• • a clear understanding of ADHD and how it presents

• • more confidence in recognising ADHD in children and adults

• • greater awareness of complexity and comorbidity

• • practical insight into responding to challenging behaviour more effectively

• • better understanding of treatment options and supports available

• • improved confidence in supporting looked after children, care-experienced young people, and vulnerable adults with ADHD

Attendees will leave with:

• • a more robust understanding of ADHD as a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition

• • greater confidence in recognising ADHD in routine clinical practice

• • improved understanding of diagnostic criteria and classification systems

• • stronger awareness of comorbidity and differential diagnosis

• • a clearer sense of how ADHD presentations change over time

• • practical insight into how to structure and approach ADHD assessment, how to assess and diagnose adhd

• • better understanding of treatment options and long-term outcomes

• • increased confidence in identifying patients who may previously have been overlooked

Improving ADHD knowledge among clinicians is not just about better individual consultations.

It is also about improving systems of care.

When clinicians are better trained to recognise ADHD, services are more likely to identify the right patients earlier, reduce misdiagnosis, improve referrals, support shared care more effectively, and reduce the long-term burden associated with untreated ADHD. Your material makes a strong case for improved clinician awareness, better diagnostic pathways, and earlier intervention as part of wider service and policy change.

Understanding ADHD, Assessment and Diagnosis: Training for Clinicians is more than a teaching session.

It is a practical, evidence-informed opportunity to improve diagnostic confidence, clinical reasoning, and patient outcomes.

Because ADHD is common.
Because it is often missed.
Because it presents in more ways than many clinicians were ever taught.
And because better recognition can change lives.
Strengthen your clinical understanding.
Improve recognition.
Support better outcomes for patients across the lifespan.

If you work with children or young people in education, this course is for you.

Because ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental conditions affecting children, yet it is still widely misunderstood in schools and classrooms. Around 5% of children are affected, which means that in an average classroom, there are likely to be one or two pupils with ADHD — whether identified already or not.

And the difficulty is this:

ADHD does not always look the way people expect it to.

It is not always the child who is visibly hyperactive, disruptive, noisy, or unable to sit still. Sometimes it is the child who daydreams, forgets instructions, struggles to start work, becomes overwhelmed by emotions, misses deadlines, reacts strongly to criticism, or quietly falls behind while appearing not to try.

That is exactly why this training matters.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for professionals working across education, including:

• • Primary school teachers

• • Secondary school teachers

• • ASN / SEND teachers

• • Classroom assistants and pupil support staff

• • Guidance teachers and pastoral care staff

• • Headteachers and senior leadership teams

• • Early years staff

• • College lecturers

• • Additional support for learning teams

• • Educational support workers

• • School wellbeing and inclusion staff

It is suitable for anyone who works with children and young people and wants a better understanding of how ADHD presents in real classroom settings.

ADHD and Its Role in Criminality is a specialist course for criminal justice professionals exploring the hidden role ADHD can play in offending behaviour, impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, non-compliance, and recidivism. With ADHD highly prevalent yet often missed in justice settings, this training is designed for police, prison staff, probation teams, court professionals, social workers, legal professionals, mental health staff, and others working across the CJS. The course explains how ADHD presents, why it matters, and how better recognition can improve communication, reduce escalation, support rehabilitation, and help break the cycle of reoffending. 

Are you confident prescribing ADHD medication — or do you still feel a bit exposed when it comes to titration, side effects, and shared care?

This half-day, practical training is designed specifically for prescribers and clinicians who want clear, evidence-based guidance on safe, person-centred ADHD medication management across the lifespan.

Who is this course for?

• • GPs and GP trainees

• • Psychiatric nurses / NMPs / ACPs

• • Psychiatrists, paediatricians & speciality doctors

• • Clinicians working in ADHD / neurodevelopmental services

• • Any healthcare professional involved in initiating, monitoring, or reviewing ADHD medication

What this training covers

This 4-hour session provides practical, evidence-based guidance on:

• • Diagnostic considerations relevant to prescribing

• • Medication classes for ADHD: stimulants and non-stimulants

• • Dosing strategies & titration (children, adolescents & adults)

• • Monitoring: cardiovascular risk, growth, sleep, appetite, and mental state

• • Managing side effects and when to switch or stop treatment

• • Co-morbidities (anxiety, mood disorders, ASD, substance use) and how they influence prescribing

• • Real-world case examples and common prescribing dilemmas

• • Best practice in collaborative care and shared-care arrangements

• • Effective communication with patients and families to support adherence and safety

Interested in booking or want more information on any of these courses?

Contact Dr Georgina Brown: georginabrown@adhddirect.co.uk