Goal Management Training
Therapist-driven executive-function training done over many hours and many weeks to improve real-world executive function by teaching people how to stay focused, avoid distraction, keep goals in mind, break tasks into sub-goals, monitor progress, and reduce anxiety and procrastination; can include individual projects such as planning a meal or planning a family vacation.
“For example, there's a therapy called goal management training, which is developed by Brian Levine and colleagues at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, where they've been very successful in teaching patients how to improve your executive function and how to make that translate into your real world. But it's very hard work. It's very therapist-driven. It requires a series of trainings.”