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Book SynopsisThis exciting new resource offers a comprehensive guide to ADHD, the most frequently diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorder and one of the most researched areas in child mental health. It brings together high-level research with the latest scholarship and applies them to practice, providing a unique and innovative perspective. Inside readers will find a critical presentation of current scientific knowledge regarding the nature, etiology, diagnosis, and management of the disorder. The book covers ADHD from infancy to adulthood and presents the whole range of possible comorbidities. The authors explore the topic from the perspective of researchers, academics, and clinicians while also offering a structured assessment procedure, a complete early intervention and treatment program, as well as illuminative case studies and practical tools for educators.
Trade ReviewThe Complete Guide to ADHD: Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment is a welcome addition to the voluminous literature on clinical care of children and adults with ADHD. It provides a comprehensive range of the most important topics on ADHD guided by a developmental approach to the disorder and a critical eye for the most useful research findings of which clinicians need to be aware. I highly recommend this book to clinicians, students in training to be clinicians, and other educated readers desiring a state-of-the-science review of information about ADHD and the evidence-based approaches to its assessment and management.
Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry , Virginia Treatment Center for Children and Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA
The Complete Guide to ADHD: Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment is a state-of-the-art comprehensive resource for clinicians, researchers, and mental health trainees working with individuals with ADHD throughout the lifespan. Maniadaki and Kakouros have nicely weaved their considerable clinical expertise with cutting edge empirical research to provide readers with critical background information on ADHD as well as clear, concise recommendations for assessment and treatment of this disorder from a developmental perspective. Their multilevel approach to assessment and intervention offers a unique, systems-based context to providing services for the ADHD population. This book is an important resource that is a must-read for all professionals working with children, adolescents, and adults with ADHD.
George J. DuPaul, PhD, Professor of School Psychology, Lehigh University (Bethlehem PA USA)
The Complete Guide to ADHD: Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment is a crowning achievement that comprehensively reviews the history, course, diagnosis, and treatment of ADHD. It includes practical evidence-based approaches as well as clinically-rich case examples across the developmental spectrum. The book is a great resource for practitioners and students alike.
Gregory A. Fabiano, Ph.D., Professor of Counseling, School, and Educational Psychology, University at Buffalo
Katerina Maniadaki and Efthymios Kakouros provide a masterly integration of historic, neuroscientific, neurodevelopmental, and clinical perspectives of ADHD. The inclusion of case studies highlights its complexity and broad array of functional impairments. Their insightful and highly readable interpretation of current advances in ADHD, together with their comprehensive, multi-level systemic approach to assessment, diagnosis, and intervention, makes this book an essential resource for clinicians, researchers, educators and other professionals who wish to better understand, help and support, individuals with ADHD.
Rosemary Tannock, Phd, Senior Scientist, Neurosciences & Mental Health Program of the Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children & Professor Emerita, University of Toronto (Special Education, Psychiatry), Canada
The Complete Guide to ADHD: Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment is an excellent addition to the field that skillfully blends together its comprehensive coverage of ADHD theory, research, and practice within a developmental framework. Particularly helpful are the numerous case examples and clinical insights that appear throughout the text, bringing to life how ADHD and its associated features unfold across the life span and deviate from typical development.
Arthur D. Anastopoulos, Ph.D, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The Complete Guide to ADHD: Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment is an exemplary professional guidebook and must-read for students, educators, and clinicians. Clearly the product of seasoned clinicians and scholars, this remarkable book distills the voluminous research on ADHD into a highly accessible and usable form. Their multilevel approach to clinical care across the lifespan is an invaluable resource for all professionals helping those affected by ADHD.
Linda Pfiffner, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
About the authors
Foreword by E.J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
Part One: The nature of ADHD
Chapter 1. The history of ADHD
Chapter 2. Clinical presentation of children with ADHD
Chapter 3. Developmental course and outcome of ADHD
Chapter 4. Epidemiology of ADHD
Chapter 5. Causality of ADHD
Chapter 6. Theories of ADHD
Chapter 7. Comorbidity
Part Two: Clinical assessment of ADHD
Chapter 8. Clinical assessment in developmental psychopathology
Chapter 9. The diagnostic criteria of ADHD
Chapter 10. Measures and methods of diagnosis
Part Three: Treatment of ADHD
Chapter 11. Interventions for ADHD
Chapter 12. The multilevel approach of ADHD
Chapter 13. Treatment of ADHD in adults
Chapter 14. Case studies
References
Index
