Key points

CBT is an empirically supported psychosocial treatment for adult ADHD.

Advances in DBT and ACT represent the third wave of behavioral therapies and have been applied to adult ADHD.

Emerging trends of process-based CBT and 4E cognition may further advance adult ADHD treatment.

CBT for adult ADHD continues to evolve to further adapt to the needs of adults with ADHD.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a vetted, evidence-based psychosocial treatment for adult ADHD .

Such evidence-based status is established chiefly by way of randomized controlled clinical trials. Such studies examine structured, manualized, session-by-session approaches tailored to address the key issues for managing adult ADHD compared to other standard treatments. This approach is the current gold st

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