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Social Relationships

College students with ADHD report lower social skills and greater difficulty in social and romantic relationships, and non-ADHD students tend to report more negative associations and unfavorable attitudes toward their ADHD peers, both of which represents the difficulties students with ADHD have on social relationships.
Although seems irrelevant, difficulties with social relationships may also contribute to some college students’ poor academic performance and higher dropout rates.
Training in mindfulness, emotional regulation skills, expectation management, reliability improvement, and using effective apology can be helpful in addressing some of the ADHD-related impairment in interpersonal relationships.
Research have found that greater frequency of contact with individuals with ADHD is associated with more positive attitudes toward those with ADHD. This suggests that college students with ADHD may benefit particularly from group-based treatment that facilitates peer normalization, and that experience of living with ADHD may ameliorate some of the negative bias toward ADHD that exists among other peers.
A support person or an individual coaching intervention may be useful to assist students in connecting to individuals in their immediate environment who can offer support, particularly for effective organization and time management.

Updated 2022-03-12

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