Advances in Understanding & Managing ADHDIn Children and Teens
6.0 CE Hours Available
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Objectives
Participants will be able to describe:
- The specific nature of the inhibition and attention deficits in ADHD
- Modifications needed to improve the rigor of DSM criteria for ADHD diagnosis
- The current neuropsychological theories of ADHD
- Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) inattention subtype
- The key role of emotional self-regulation
- problems in understanding the nature of ADHD
- the role of poor emotion regulation in the assessment and management of ADHD
- Reasons comorbid disorders may be associated with ADHD
- How comorbid disorders may alter treatment planning
- The most likely etiologies of ADHD
- Major advances in management approaches used to treat childhood and adolescent ADHD
Topics
Advances in Diagnosis and Subtyping
- Specific nature of ADHD symptoms
- Current DSM-5 diagnostic criteria
- Modifications necessary for updating the DSM-5
- Subtyping of ADHD
- Sluggish Cognitive Tempo or Concentration Deficit Disorder
The Importance of Emotion in Understanding and Managing ADHD
- Emotional impulsiveness and deficient emotional self-regulation
- Comorbid disorders
- Emotional adjustment problems in ADHD
- Including emotions in ADHD management
Optimizing ADHD Treatment The Impact of Comorbidity
- Past approaches to ADHD subtyping
- Using comorbidity to clinically subtype
- Prevalence of comorbidity in ADHD
- Treatment implications
Advances in Etiology and Management
- Causes of ADHD
- Using etiological research for understanding and managing ADHD
- Experimental, disproven and unproven treatments