| ~*Featured Article*~ | ADHD
ADHD can manifest
with or without hyperactivity or Behaviour
Disorders. Most children with ADHD can be
well behaved and polite and are beautiful
children of normal intelligence and many
have above average intelligence. However,
they can often be overly inattentive and be
easily distracted, they can be fidgety and
may tend to make impulsive mistakes. The
media often concentrates on presenting mostly
the hyperactive children with associated behaviour
disorders as representative of ADHD.
Consequently, parents with the more inattentive
subtype are understandably unwilling to accept
that their child may have ADHD.
Symptoms of ADHD
According to the
Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)
of the
American Psychiatric Association, ADHD is a diagnosis
applied to children and adults who consistently display
certain characteristic behaviours over a period of time.
Traditionally ADHD is diagnosed if the child has some of
the characteristic behaviours on a list which is so broad
that it covers most undesirable childhood behaviours.
The list covers all children with attention problems:
from the polite, dreamy inattentive child to the extremely
hyperactive out of control one. After decades of research,
medical science has yet to identify "the cause" behind all
the different ADHD behaviours. It is unlikely that research
will ever find a single cause; rather, someday there
might be an agreement that ADHD is actually a catch-all
umbrella for a range of underlying disorders.
Assessment of ADHD Behaviours
Not everyone who is overly hyperactive, inattentive, or
impulsive has an attention deficit disorder. Since most
people sometimes blurt out things they didn't mean to say,
ounce from one task to another, or become disorganized
and forgetful, how can specialists tell if the problem is ADHD?
To assess whether a person has ADHD, we consider several
critical questions: Are these behaviors excessive,
long-term, and pervasive? That is, do they occur more
often than in other people the same age? Are they a
continuous problem and not just a response to a
temporary situation? Do the behaviors occur in several
settings or only in one specific place like the playground
or the office? The person's pattern of behavior is
compared against a set of criteria and characteristics
of the disorder.
These criteria appear in a manual
called the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders version IV).
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