Checklist: Understanding Your Strengths and Difficulties with Executive Functioning

Understanding Your Strengths & Difficulties with Executive Functioning

Executive functioning describes a set of mental abilities that allows you to adapt your behaviour to manage different situations, connect with others, and achieve your goals. These abilities include maintaining attention, switching between tasks, starting new tasks, planning, organising, prioritising, decision-making, working memory (holding information in your mind), tracking and managing time, monitoring your behaviour and its impact on others, controlling urges and impulses (inhibition), and managing your emotions.

To identify the areas of executive functioning that you find difficult, explore this checklist. This is not a psychometric test. The examples come from a range of sources, including lived experience.

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