Attention Deficit Disorders and Comorbidities in Children, Adolescents and Adults

Attention Deficit Disorders and Comorbidities in Children, Adolescents and Adults

Edited by Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 2000
(Over 10, 000 copies sold)

Also available in full-text Spanish translation as:

Trastornos por deficit de atencion y comorbilidades en ninos, adolescentes y adultos

Edited by Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
Barcelona, Spain: Masson, 2003

This 736 page book, published in both English and Spanish, demonstrates a scope and depth unparalleled within the current literature on ADHD. It covers all age ranges across the lifespan and includes many references so that readers can readily access more detailed information on areas of specific interest. Written with a solid base of current research, it addresses concerns and practical needs of clinicians, educators, students and researchers in many professional fields including clinical psychologists and psychiatrists, pediatricians, family practitioners and other physicians and nurses who treat children, adolescents or adults; educational professionals including teachers, guidance counselors, special education teachers, school psychologists, administrators, and college and university disability services personnel; clinical social workers and marriage and family counselors, substance abuse counselors and juvenile justice system professionals,and others who work in various aspects of human services for children, adolescents or adults.

This book is quite different from most existing books on ADHD. It includes clear explanation of a new model for understanding ADHD as a complex set of impairments in management functions of the mind. It begins with recognition that more than 50% of those affected by ADHD, with or without hyperactivity, also have one or more concurrent disorder of learning, emotion and/or behavior. Established experts describe practical implications of current research on ADD with Anxiety Disorders, ADD with Learning Disorders, ADD with Mood Disorders, ADD with Substance Abuse, and many other combinations of ADD with other comorbid disorders.

Increasingly ADD is being recognized as a widespread disorder which significantly impairs many children, adolescents and adults in work or school, family life, social relationships and self-esteem. This book provides accurate, up-to-date, research-based information on the diverse and complex ways in which ADDs impact individuals and their families. It describes how these complexities should be taken into account by all those who assess, treat, educate and care for children, adolescents and adults with ADHD--with and without hyperactivity.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Attention-Deficit Disorders With Comorbidities

1. Emerging Understandings of Attention-Deficit Disorders and Comorbidities Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
2. Genetics of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder James J. Hudziak, M.D.
3. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With Mood Disorders Thomas Spencer, M.D., Timothy Wilens, M.D., Joseph Biederman, M.D., Janet Wozniak, M.D., and Margaret Harding-Crawford, B.A.
4. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With Anxiety Disorders Rosemary Tannock, Ph.D.
5. Attention-Deficit Disorders With Oppositionality and Aggression Jeffrey H. Newcorn, M.D., and Jeffrey M. Halperin, Ph.D.
6. Attention-Deficit Disorders With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
7. Attention-Deficit Disorders With Learning Disorders in Children and Adolescents Rosemary Tannock, Ph.D., and Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
8. Learning Disabilities and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: Overlap With Executive Dysfunction Martha Bridge Denckla, M.D.
9. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With Substance Use Disorders Timothy E. Wilens, M.D., Thomas J. Spencer, M.D., and Joseph Biederman, M.D
10. Attention-Deficit Disorders With Sleep/Arousal Disturbances Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D., and Edward J. Modestino, A.L.B., M.L.A.
11. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With Tourette Syndrome David E. Comings, M.D.
12. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Developmental Coordination Disorder Christopher Gillberg, M.D., Ph.D., and Björn Kadesjö, M.D.
13. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Preschool Child Beth A. Shepard, Ph.D., Alice S. Carter, Ph.D., and Jennifer E. Cohen, M.A.
14. Subgroups of Adult Outcome of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Lily Hechtman, M.D., F.R.C.P.

Assessment and Interventions for Attention-Deficit Disorders

15. Assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Comorbidities Donald M. Quinlan, Ph.D.
16. Pharmacotherapy of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Timothy E. Wilens, M.D., Thomas J. Spencer, M.D., and Joseph Biederman, M.D.
17. Psychosocial Interventions for Attention-Deficit Disorders and Comorbid Conditions Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
18. Cognitive Therapy for Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Stephen P. McDermott, M.D.
19. Educational Interventions for Students With Attention-Deficit Disorders George J. DuPaul, Ph.D., and Thomas J. Power, Ph.D.
20. Tailoring Treatments for Individuals With Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder: Clinical and Research Perspectives Peter S. Jensen, M.D., and Howard Abikoff, Ph.D.

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