Books on CBT for ADHD

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Therapist manuals / protocols

• Steven Safren, Susan Sprich, Carol Perlman & Michael Otto, Mastering Your Adult ADHD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program, Therapist Guide
  It is a structured CBT protocol originally developed for adults with ADHD who continued to have symptoms despite medication. Major modules include organization/planning, reducing distractibility, adaptive thinking, and relapse prevention. It has an accompanying client workbook.
  
  

• Mary Solanto, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Dysfunction
  Solanto's approach is heavily focused on executive-function problems, including time management, organization, planning, procrastination, motivation/reward, and emotional regulation. It's designed as a manualized group treatment but many components translate readily to individual therapy.
  
  

• J. Russell Ramsay & Anthony Rostain, The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out
  More clinician/client friendly and practical than some formal manuals. Strong on turning intentions into actions, managing procrastination, organization, time, and cognitive-emotional barriers.
  
  

Client workbook

• Safren et al., Mastering Your Adult ADHD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program, Client Workbook
  This pairs with the therapist guide and provides the worksheets/homework, which makes it particularly convenient if you're actually doing ADHD-focused CBT rather than just incorporating ADHD strategies periodically.

Broader clinician resources

• Ramsay & Rostain, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD: An Integrative Psychosocial and Medical Approach
  Much more of a clinician text explaining the conceptual model and treatment than a simple workbook. Useful if you want to understand why you're using particular CBT interventions.
  
  

• Russell Barkley, Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
  Not a CBT therapist manual, but an excellent practical complement. Barkley's emphasis on externalizing executive functions fits extremely well with ADHD CBT: making time visible, externalizing reminders, modifying contingencies and designing the environment rather than expecting the person to simply "try harder."