This pocketbook serves as a concise and practical guide to the management of ADHD for child and adolescent psychiatrists and child psychologists, paediatricians, trainees, psychiatric specialist nurses, interested general practitioners, and other mental health professionals. The pocketbook provides a user-friendly introduction to the clinical understanding, evaluation, and treatment of ADHD. This edition has been updated to include new DSM-5 diagnostic criteria (May 2013) and to reflect more published studies on ADHD in the adult population, along with new data on the CNS stimulant drug LDX (Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate).
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental disorders affecting children and adolescents.
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Among these children were Shania Dunkle (aged 10 years), Matthew Smith (aged 14), Stephanie Hall (aged 11) and Randy Steele (aged 9). You can read about all of these children on the Internet. Matthew Smith's father has posted details of ...
The book provides answers to the numerous questions that surround ADHD, such as: How is ADHD diagnosed? What causes ADHD? What are the risks of associated learning and behavior disorders, tics, seizures, and headaches?
This Handbook of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder provides a state of the art position on each of these fronts from leading clinicians and researchers from around the world.
The book will prove useful to professionals and parents seeking a better understanding of children and childhood development.
The Encyclopedia of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders traces the disorder's history in detail for students and adults, identifying the people, places, tests, symptoms, treatments, and current and future avenues of research for this ...
Adults with a chronic history of anxiety problems often report that their problems began in early childhood . Problems Regulating Anger Anger , like anxiety , is a normal emotion . The important issue is how the child or adolescent ...
779 DeVito, E.E., et al., Methylphenidate improves response inhibition but not reflection-impulsivity in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Psychopharmacology (Berl), 2009. 202(1–3): 531–9.
New genetic studies bring deeper and more concise knowledge about the disorder’s etiology. This book addresses these aspects of ADHD to bring about more clarity and understanding of the disorder.