Sarah Templeton

About Sarah

Sarah wrote the hit book ‘How NOT to Murder Your ADHD Kid – Instead Learn to be Your Child’s Own ADHD Coach‘ and then Teachers! How Not to Kill the Spirit in Your ADHD Kids as she realised the key to stopping ADHD adolescents becoming homeless, unemployed, on drugs and in prison was to educate the parents and teachers. If parents could recognise their kids getting into these sorts of issues very early on and change their child’s life path by pursuing an early diagnosis, medication and managing their ADHD properly from the start, the end result would mean the prisons, homeless hostels and rehabs would NOT be packed to the rafters with ADHD.

Sarah is a vocal advocate for change and believes The ADHD Act is long overdue. She very much hopes this Act will ensure ~

• ADHD training for all Teachers, College and University lecturers
• ADHD to be included in all counselling, psychology and psychiatric training
• All offenders to be tested for ADHD when entering a police station for the first time and the prison service for the first time

Sarah is on the APPG for ADHD at the Houses of Parliament and has vowed to be the voice for the tens of thousands of young offenders and adult offenders with undiagnosed ADHD – who cannot get their voice heard within the prison system. Yet without the correct ADHD diagnosis and medication their life is destined to be one spent persistently in and out of prison.

Sarah campaigns the government to change this situation by assessing all offenders for ADHD. Especially young offenders. This is a win-win situation ~

• The crime rates will fall dramatically
• The public will feel safer – there will be substantially fewer house break-ins, robberies, muggings and other petty crime by risk-taking and thrill-seeking undiagnosed ADHD teens and adults looking to pay for their next fix or their next betting session
• Vast amounts of money will be saved by not having to lock up people who just needed the right diagnosis and the right medication. The reduced funding for the prison service should save taxpayers literally millions of pounds annually
• Suicide rates inside prisons will fall dramatically – dysregulated emotion means ADHD people are at higher risk of self-harm and suicide. Incarcerating people with the ADHD trait ‘the need to get out and do something’ means locking them up for 23 hours a day systematically destroys their mental health

About How Not to Damage Your ADHD Adolescent

She met far too many ADHD adolescents in Young Offender Institutes when she was a Prison Counsellor, and, without exception, none of them had had strong parental support. A lot of them had had no support whatsoever, and certainly nobody understanding their ADHD brain. So for mostly very silly, minor misdemeanours they had ended up behind bars.

Sarah then went into private practice counselling ADHD teenagers, all of whom she bonded with instantly. For one very simple reason. She had the same brain as them - she ‘got’ them.

What Sarah wants more than anything in this book is to help you understand your own ADHD teenager’s brain. How it works, how it thinks, how it’s different to other peoples’ brains and how to ensure your ADHD adolescent gets the very best start in life.

Her goal is to help YOU to understand them so THEY have a hassle-free puberty and you don’t have a breakdown trying to make that happen!

If you don’t understand an ADHD brain, it’s very easy to damage a teenager’s self-esteem and feelings of self-worth. It is this damage that Sarah wants to limit.

Sarah will explain in detail the ADHD traits your ADHD teen is dealing with and take you through all the situations you are likely to find yourself in and explain how best to manage them.

She cares deeply about every ADHD teenager and their future and she will do her very best to make sure they get the right understanding and support from the word go.