ABSTRACT
The manifestations of attention deficits in adults are often most evident in the workplace environment, for it is at work that the greatest demands for planning, memory, organization, teamwork, and precision are placed on us. The ADD career consultant has a crucial role to play in enabling the ADD adult to achieve success in the workplace. In this chapter, a model is proposed for the ADD career counselor as the integrator of complex sets of information, who makes appropriate referrals and accommodations based on that information as well as on her or his own assessment, and who serves, in an ongoing capacity, as coach, advocate, and counselor while the· adult with ADD works to improve his or her workplace functioning. Career selection or career change, workplace performance, issues relating to promotions or job transfers, disclosure of the ADD diagnosis at work, reasonable on-the-job accommodations, and success strategies in the workplace for the adult with ADD will be addressed in this chapter. Because practitioners, such as myself, are on the "front line" serving newly diagnosed adults with ADD, without the benefit of guidance from empirical evidence, much of the information in this chapter is necessarily derived from clinical experience.
