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Is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Over Diagnosed?

to high increased use, but this may also be down to increased acceptance and a low baseline. To assess whether or not there is a...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

educators would wonder why so many children have this disorder. It would also seem that some would wonder if many of the individua...

Adolescent Behavior and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

in the life of dealing with an adolescent who has ADHD, and for the adolescent to be able to deal with the disorder. Volumes of r...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD

These subtypes are characterized by three core symptoms: Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. In the vernacular of the cl...

ADHD Children and Using Family and Group Therapies

age children, considered more than 3 million in the United States alone in the year 2001. Although the disorder has been reported ...

Children and Causes of ADHD

a correlation of Attention Deficit Disorder with differences in thyroid hormone receptors. Researchers have found "a small subset...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Conduct Disorder Causes

In six pages four causes of conduct disorders are examined with the focus on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Seven sour...

Troubled Teens: SUDs and DBDs in Adolescent Populations

226) and occurs in as much as 26 percent of the adolescent population, and include alcohol, tobacco and illegal substance use. Su...

Oppositing to Medicating Children with ADD or ADHD

with ADHD/ADD has only a very limited effectiveness, and the side effects and risks associated with it are simply too great. The ...

How Does ADHD Affect Learning

impossible for this individual to learn or achieve in school. This is not because they are not intelligent enough to do so, it is ...

ADHD and ADD Diagnosis and Overdiagnosis

In thirty pages attention hyperactivity deficit disorder and attention deficit disorder are examined in terms of diagnosis or as t...

The Use of Ritalin to Control Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

11 pages and 8 sources. This paper considers the impacts of using Ritalin in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Dis...

Alcoholics and ADHD

Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...

ADD Treatments

Chung , 1997). Within six years time the name was changed again and is now well know by the acronym ADHD (Calhoun, Greenwell-Ioril...

ADHD and ADD

In this paper of twelve pages the differences between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and attention deficit disorder are ...

ADD and ADHD from Sociological Perspectives

In forty five pages this research paper presents a sociological overview of the implications of an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity...

ADHD Diagnosis And Assessment

in grades Kindergarten through 8 (Erford and Hase, 2006). It has 24 items that are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, almost never to alm...

Intelligence and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do well, but always seemed unable to perform to standard: My earliest recogni...

ADHD Traits and Interventions

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages the characteristics generally associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ...

ADHD Assessment

In five pages attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is first described than an overview is provided by way of MMPI 2 and three ...

Adolescent Depression and ADHD

for the disorder. On medication now, he says that he is more focused than at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do ...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

Concept Analysis: ADHD

This concept analysis pertains to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and provides a comprehensive discussion of this...

ADHD from a Mother's Perspective

In this paper consisting of eleven pages the mother of a child recently diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is...

Case Study of Children with Disabilities

In six pages this essay discusses a case study of a boy age eight with a diagnoses of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and...

Learning Event/Math Lesson Plan for 5th Graders with ADHD

cycle. Description of learners: There were 98 students in total enrolled in Armels fifth grade during the 2007-08 school year. T...

Learning Event/Math Lesson Plan for 5th Graders with ADHD

cycle. Description of learners: There were 98 students in total enrolled in Armels fifth grade during the 2007-08 school year. T...

Research Proposal on Hyperactivity

inherent weakness of being 18 years old. Therefore, much of its information is out-of-date. Jensen, et al (1998) conducted a stu...

Sppech Pathology and ADHD

Center for Health Statistics, approximately 6.7% of children aged 5 to 17 were reported to have ADHD in 1997-2000" (Attention Defi...