ADD in Spanish is “TDA: el trastorno de déficit de atención” and ADHD is “TDAH: el trastorno de déficit de atención e hiperactividad”. In this post you’ll learn how to talk about ADD & ADHD in Spanish. Specifically, you’ll learn:
- A description in Spanish of ADD and ADHD
- General and specific symptoms of ADD/ADHD
- Some useful questions to talk about ADD/ADHD in Spanish
- Common treatments
- Suggestions to help children and adults with ADD/ADHD stay organized
Other posts in this Mental Health series:
Screening your Spanish speaking patients for depression
This medical Spanish lesson focuses on screening your Spanish speaking patients for depression using the SIG E CAPS acronym: Sleep, Interests, Guilt, Energy, Concentration, Appetite,…
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Explaining Depression Diagnoses & Treatments in Spanish
This Medical Spanish lesson focuses on explaining the depression diagnoses and treatments in Spanish to your Spanish speaking patients. Here is the Depression Diagnoses &…
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How to Evaluate Depression in Spanish using SIG E CAPS
This Medical Spanish lesson focuses on how to evaluate depression in Spanish using SIG E CAPS to your Spanish speaking patients. Here is the Depression…
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Questions and Phrases to Assess Child Abuse and Neglect in Spanish
This Medical Spanish lesson focuses on learning how assess child abuse and neglect in Spanish. This is a delicate topic requested by a community member…
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Mental Health Conversations in Spanish
In this free Medical Spanish lesson you will learn how to have Mental Health Conversations in Spanish with your patients: Conversaciones sobre salud mental. Here…
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Discussing Depression in Spanish
This is Lesson 1 of 5 in our Mental Health in Spanish series. In this free Medical Spanish lesson you will learn how to talk…
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Discussing Anxiety in Spanish
This is Lesson 2 of 5 in our Mental Health in Spanish series. In this free Medical Spanish lesson, you will learn how to talk…
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Discussing Substance Abuse in Spanish
In today’s lesson, we’re addressing topic #3 from the mental health survey that our community members asked to learn about: addiction & substance abuse in…
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Discussing PTSD in Spanish
PTSD in Spanish PTSD is lesson 4 in our 5-lesson series on discussing mental health in Spanish. If you missed the previous lessons, be sure…
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Discussing ADD and ADHD in Spanish
ADD in Spanish is “TDA: el trastorno de déficit de atención” and ADHD is “TDAH: el trastorno de déficit de atención e hiperactividad”. In this…
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How to Teach Coping Strategies in Spanish
Coping strategies in Spanish are “Estrategias de afrontamiento”. This week, as I was preparing to have a coping strategies talk with one of my daughters…
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Mental health Conversation in Spanish – Listening Comprehension
Work on your listening comprehension in Spanish and learn about the mental health situation in Costa Rica! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M13Q3HpGYnc Download the script to follow along and…
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