Social Media Relationship Assessment

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Domain
ADHD
Type
Assessment
Phase
Discovery Reflection
Details
15 min Between sessions
Topics
Habits Identity Communication

Built for ADHD brains – structured support for executive function challenges.

When to Use This Tool
A client uses social media habitually but hasn't examined how it affects their mood and attention
A client senses a gap between why they open social apps and how they feel when they close them
A client wants to explore their relationship with social media before deciding on any changes
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What you're looking for when you open a social media app and how you feel when y...

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For the Coaching Practitioner

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Coaching Scenarios Plus
1 Naming the Emotional Function Social Media Serves
Context

A client with ADHD who is a project coordinator uses social media throughout the workday - between tasks, during lunch, and during the first fifteen minutes after clocking out. He describes it as 'just a habit' and has not connected the behavior to any specific emotional state. His coach suspects the usage is functioning as a dopamine reset between cognitively demanding tasks, but the client has no language for that function. The assessment is needed to build enough self-awareness that a different approach to the same need becomes possible.

How to Introduce

Frame the four questions as a diagnostic, not a judgment: 'Before we decide whether social media is a problem worth solv...

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