ADHD Assessment and Diagnosis Across Settings Redone
Reminder: You NEED to watch the entire video before you take the quiz. This is REQUIRED for your Continuing Education Units to be accepted by the Certification Board.
Lesson Presentation
Like any other condition, early detection and intervention are key to future success. In our ADD/ADHD LIVE Webinar series with Dr. Ronald T. Brown, a renowned ADHD expert, we will demystify the mystery of ADD/ADHD so that parents, teachers, clinicians and other care providers can learn about medication and behavioral strategies to help individuals with ADD/ADHD reach their greatest level of functioning.
Use of assessment and diagnosis to develop treatment plans
(i) Diagnostic tools
– What are they and when to use?
(ii) Teacher involvement: questionnaire
– Examples
(iii) Parent involvement: questionnaire
– Examples
Best practices: Treatment algorithm
(i) How to develop a treatment algorithm (balance between medication and behavioral)
Basic terminology (i.e. definition of functions)
Downloadable Tools:
- ADHD Overview of the Evidence
- Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis
- DSM5 Diagnostic Criteria ADHD
