Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or sometimes referred to as just ADD, is a disorder that affects millions of children across the globe. It is a disorder characterized by the deficiency of some or all faculties grouped together under executive functions, which include the ability to focus, organize oneself and using the memory needed for day-to-day functions. In such children, there appears some level of insufficiency in the way the wiring in the brain works. It is possible that many children with ADHD could show symptoms of deficiency of only one or some functions affected by this disorder.
Children with ADHD are often challenged for daily work functions, especially at school. It is true that almost every child has symptoms of ADHD in varying degree at some or another point of time, but for children to be diagnosed with it, they need to be persistently showing these symptoms, and to a considerably higher degree than normal children.
Issues with pinpointed diagnosis
As with most other disorder involving the brain, diagnosing ADHD brings its challenges. Psychologists use many criteria for determining if the child actually has ADHD. This is the basis to further intervention. The latest diagnostic criteria based on clinical research will be the topic of a highly valuable webinar that MentorHealth, a leading provider of professional trainings for all the areas of regulatory compliance, is organizing.
Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D., a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Virginia Treatment Center for Children and Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, will be the speaker at this webinar. Dr. Barkley, who as a clinical scientist, educator, and practitioner has published 23 books, rating scales, and clinical manuals numbering 41 editions, and has also published more than 270 scientific articles and book chapters related to the nature, assessment, and treatment of ADHD and related disorders; is the founder and Editor of the bimonthly clinical newsletter, The ADHD Report.
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Clarity on the diagnosis part of ADHD
The core of this learning session is the familiarization that Dr. Barkley will offer of ADHD diagnosis. He will review the various modifications necessary for updating the DSM criteria and making them more useful with special populations.
Dr. Barkley will then explain subtyping of ADHD and elucidate the emerging impression in the medical community that one form of the inattentive type may constitute a new disorder known in research as sluggish cognitive tempo or sometimes called ADD by clinicians. He will also talk about the changes that are still needed to improve these diagnostic criteria based on findings in the research literature.
Dr. Barkley will then take up for discussion the latest criteria for diagnosing ADHD in children and adults that goes beyond just the DSM-5 criteria and also includes the modifications that are essential for applying those diagnostic criteria to special populations. Research carried out over the past decade or so documented these modifications well, but somehow, these diagnoses were ignored in the final version of DSM-5. Dr. Barkley will highlight the importance of missing out on such crucial findings, which could lead to a sharper diagnosis of ADHD using the DSM-5 criteria.
Of high value to professionals who deal with patients with ADHD, such as Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counselors, Clinical Social Workers and Psychiatric Nurses; this session will cover the following areas:
o The current research clinical view of ADHD
o The nature of the attention and inhibition problems evident in ADHD
o Understanding ADHD as a disorder of executive functioning
o The DSM-5 criteria
o The problems with DSM-5 criteria and how to fix them
o The problems with earlier DSM subtyping of ADHD and a more recent alternative approach
o The nature of sluggish cognitive tempo – a distinct disorder of attention from ADHD that can be comorbid with it.
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