ADHD Star
Clarity and understanding for adults managing ADHD
Who is the ADHD Star for?
The ADHD Star has been developed for any adult who has been diagnosed with ADHD and is seeking support for managing it in their day-to-day life.
It’s not always easy for adults with ADHD to understand the impact their condition has on their life or how well they’re doing to manage it. The ADHD Star helps them and the services supporting them identify progress towards key outcomes like work, health and relationships, and give clarity on where to focus next.
- Can children and young people use the ADHD Star?
Because adults and young people have such different needs when managing their ADHD, we’ve also developed the Attention Star specifically for services working with children and young people. If your service works with both adults and young people, your Outcomes Star licence will give you access to both the ADHD Star and the Attention Star, as well as full training and support in implementing them both.
Using the Outcomes Star approach
The ADHD Star is designed to be used as part of the Outcomes Star approach. That’s why we provide essential training and ongoing support to all licenced practitioners, so you can embed the Outcomes Star approach in your practice.
How does the ADHD Star work?
The ADHD Star covers eight key outcome areas that are essential to helping adults manage their ADHD in daily life, and assesses their progress towards each following a five-stage Journey of Change.
You and the people you support will fill out the Star together, and use it to better identify where their strengths lie and where they might need more help, and to make plans for moving forward along the journey.
Outcome areas
- Understanding your ADHD
- Focus and attention
- Organising yourself
- Friends and social life
- Thinking and reacting
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Physical
health
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How
you feel
- Meaningful use of time
The Journey of Change
01
Stuck
02
Getting help
03
Trying things out
04
Finding what works
05
Choice and self-reliance
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Always rooted in expertise and experience
The ADHD Star was developed in collaboration with the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Service for Adults with ADHD. We also worked with Dr Marios Adamou, West Yorkshire ADHD Support Group, Complex Minds and service users and carers to develop and test the ADHD Star.
