Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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• Do I have a child with ADHD?

  
  Health and Medic — Authority: 146
  Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common behaviour disorder in children, affecting up to seven per cent of school age children. ADHD often coexists with other disorders such as learning disabilities or anxiety disorders or even substance induced mood swings. Some of the symptoms are ...
  1 week ago

• Kids Need More Mental Health Care

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 583
  A national survey has discovered that half of the children and adolescents who would benefit from mental health care fail to receive assistance. The survey, administered between 2001 and 2004, included over 3,000 children and adolescents between the ages of 8 and 15. In addition to assessing the need for services, ...
  1 week ago

• Intuniv Answers: ADHD & Addiction Indication

  
  CorePsych Blog — Authority: 103
  Intuniv For ADHD & Substance Abuse - As we move down the early ADHD road of experience with Intuniv some interesting additional indications appear.
  1 week ago

• Best Audio Textbook

  
  My Personal Finance — Authority: 127
  During the last couple of centuries the form of teaching has not changed much. There are the professors who deliver the knowledge, there are the books that store the knowledge and there are students who suck this knowledge. The textbooks are a great source, yet not every student is able to use them. There are those ...
  2 weeks ago

• Medicaid Children Get 4x More Antipsychotics

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 559
  If you’re a child in Medicaid, you already have a more difficult life than average ahead of you. Children in Medicaid programs have nearly twice the number of mental health problems than other children. But now new research suggests it gets even worse for children in Medicaid, according to an article in The New ...
  2 weeks ago

• Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 170
  Some children from poor families may be receiving powerful drugs not because they need them but because it is deemed a cheaper way to treat a problem.
  2 weeks ago

• Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Some children from poor families may be receiving powerful drugs not because they need them but because it is deemed a cheaper way to treat a problem.
  2 weeks ago

• Sen. Grassley Questions More Nonprofits

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 559
  We can’t help but note that the other shoe dropped on nonprofit agencies (as we predicted back in April ) and their lack of disclosure and transparency about their funding sources. Will anybody really be surprised to find that 50% or more of many of these organization’s budgets come directly or indirectly from a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Organizing Your Holiday Season

  
  Deborah Does Navel-Gazing — Authority: 109
  Is there a bigger challenge for someone with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder than the holidays? So many things to keep track of, so many things to accomplish – all of them with a deadline. After planning twenty-five or so holiday seasons, I’ve come up with some strategies, and also know where some of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Calming Your Senses During the Holiday Season

  
  Deborah Does Navel-Gazing — Authority: 109
  I worked in retail sales for over three years, all of them spent in stores in large shopping malls. The first store I worked in, Victoria’s Secret, was in a beautiful mall in Boston called Copley Place. Everything about the mall was soothing – the peach marble interior, the low lighting, the waterfall and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Is Attention Deficit Disorder?

  
  Blog Your Site — Authority: 164
  Statistics show that as many as 4.4% or adults have some degree of Attention Deficit Disorder. Statistics show that ADD sufferers tend to be lower academic achievers and can have difficult in holding a steady job. ADD is actually caused by problems with the brains dopamine neurotransmitter systems. Some have suggested ...
  3 weeks ago

• Be Better Doing What You’re Good At

  
  New Comm Biz — Authority: 425
  Do Better Over the course of my life I’ve had more personality and intelligence tests than your average person. Growing up with ADHD before people understood it, meant I went through a lot of tests. Then between my various jobs and when I got my MBA I have taken dozens of additional tests. The net result of all ...
  3 weeks ago

• Number of M.L.B. Players Given Drug Exemptions Up Slightly

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  A total of 108 players received exemptions to use performance-enhancing drugs for attention deficit disorder.
  3 weeks ago

• Number of M.L.B. Players Given Drug Exemptions Up Slightly

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  A total of 108 players received exemptions to use performance-enhancing drugs for attention deficit disorder.
  3 weeks ago

• How can art be used positively to help children with special needs?

  
  Improve Memory — Authority: 130
  Most children will benefit from developing their skills in art.  Most children who are suffering with symptoms associated with most mental health disorders can showed marked improvement by time spent with art.  Daniella Barroqueiro, M.A., Ed.D. is a college professor who herself has what she describes as ADHD. She ...
  3 weeks ago

• Art can calm the mind and is an effective therapy in mental health.

  
  Improve Memory — Authority: 130
  Art, as a learned coping measure can be an effective therapy for many mental health difficulties. It can be an effective way for kids to develop self esteem and can be of value in behavioral health applications for young people. Art therapy is a professional therapy administered by board certified therapists, who use ...
  3 weeks ago

• ADD – ADHD Diagnosis Changes Coming?

  
  Aim for Awesome — Authority: 117
  This is something that I’m really concerned about because I’ve had symptoms of attention deficit disorder (ADD) since being a kid and yet I had no idea and wasn’t diagnosed until I was in my early twenties.The DSM-IV is the diagnostic manual psychologists and psychiatrists use to diagnose Attention Deficit ...
  4 weeks ago

• Intuniv For ADHD: Dosing Details

  
  CorePsych Blog — Authority: 103
  Intuniv For ADHD Is Guanfacine, But Better and Easier - ADHD treatment evolves: This will be a short note to quickly address the growing comments here at CorePsych Blog on the previous Intuniv post.
  4 weeks ago

• One Soldier’s Suicide Story

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 559
  While we return to our daily lives after the holidays and get into the Christmas spirit, some families will not be celebrating this year. One family is James Weigl’s, a soldier who returned home after deployment, suffered from depression, and ultimately took his own life. Forty-three percent of soldiers who commit ...
  4 weeks ago

• Specialist nurses are well qualified to prescribe drugs to youngsters

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 153
  The greater role they have taken on has nothing to do with the rise in medicating children The pseudonymous GP Dr Crippen suggests that diagnosis and treatment by nurse specialists – or nurse "specialists", as he calls them – is a "dumbing down" of services offered by the NHS ( Should nurses be prescribing drugs ...
  4 weeks ago

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