I was thrilled to be asked to join The UK ADHD Partnership (UKAP) to co-author and contribute this to the field. This publication was written with the aim of serving as a benchmark, ensuring children and teenagers receive reliable and valid diagnostic assessments, reflecting high quality in clinical practice and standards of care.
Inspired by the YouTuber Jessica McCabe (How to ADHD), please find this decisional rubric. It is designed to be saved onto a mobile telephone or where you make most impulse…
ADHD rarely travels by itself. The American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights this explaining that behaviour problems, anxiety and depression, increased risk taking, peer difficulties, autism, and specific…
Russell Barkley has said that ADHD is more of an ‘intention disorder’ than an inattention disorder. People with ADHD know what is required of them and have every intention to…
One of the signs of inattention in people with ADHD is the tendency to make careless errors and mistakes. Apart from difficulty in paying attention, this may be due to…
The medical model of ADHD says the condition is caused by a general reduction of specific neurotransmitters, namely dopamine and noradrenaline. Toward the later end of the luteal phase of…
People with ADHD can find it hard to remember what possessions they have, appointments can be missed and items on a to-do list are not attended to. Modern organisational systems…