Coaching practices for Attentional Deployment for My Teenager

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• My attention feels welded to the inside of my own head
• When I try to lock onto one thing, my attention slides off it within seconds and I have to keep dragging it back
• I know exactly which one thing in that room is going to set me off, and once I’m in there my eyes go straight to it and I’m gone
• Something just landed and I’m too wound up to deal with it sanely right this second
• Once my attention locks onto the thing I’m scared of, I genuinely can’t pry it loose

Practices that may help

1. Attentional Deployment, Made Practical
   Attentional deployment is James Gross’s term for deliberately directing attention within a situation to change its emotional impact. Because emotion is partly determined by what we attend to, shifting attention toward or away from specific aspects of a situation can modify the emotional response without changing the situation itself. It includes both distraction (shifting away from the emotion-generating aspect) and concentration (focusing on specific features that generate a different emotional response).
2. Attention training technique (ATT)
   Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
   Metacognitive Therapy, Made Practical
3. Selective attention to individual sounds
   Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
   Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
4. Attentional deployment
   Direct attention away from the emotionally provocative element of a situation before the emotion fires.
   Cognitive Reappraisal vs. Suppression, Made Practical
5. Use distraction deliberately as a short-term regulation tool
   Deliberately shifting attention away from an emotion-generating stimulus can provide a short-term window for recovery — if used strategically.
   Attentional Deployment, Made Practical
6. Train flexible attention
   Practise deliberately moving attention between external cues and internal experience — and back.
   Detached Mindfulness, Made Practical
7. Rapid attention shifting between sounds
   Switch attention between sound sources on cue, making each shift deliberate and immediate.
   Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
8. Daily 12-minute ATT practice
   Run the full three-phase ATT session every day as a skill, not a relaxation ritual.
   Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
9. Redirect from self-focus to external attention
   When anxiety spikes, deliberately anchor attention to a specific external sound or object.
   Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
10. Spend quality one-on-one time with your child
    Fifteen minutes of child-led, uninterrupted attention per day builds the relationship that discipline depends on.
    Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)

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