ADHD Background

The booklet below,Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), is published by the National Institute of Mental Health (USA).  It is a very good resource stating the current generally accepted beliefs and treatment standards regarding ADHD.

There is some disagreement among scholars and professionals about the appropriateness of these generally accepted beliefs and standards. For example, there are two different International Consensus Statements on ADHD – each saying almost the opposite of the other. Unfortunately, many who disagree with the USA version of generally accepted beliefs are dismissed offhand.

After studying ADHD for over 18 years, and working with children for over 35, I have come to believe that the USA version of the generally accepted beliefs has serious flaws which I point out in the yellow and gray boxes that appear when you cursor over an area.

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For conventional wisdom about ADHD, we use materials supplied by the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).  To that we add our own critical analysis, which shows up in white and yellow boxes when you cursor over an area of the booklet.
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1. Conventional Wisdom: the generally accepted beliefs and practices held by professionals and researchers.
2. Critical Analysis: looking at conventional wisdom "under a magnifying glass" to discover additional insights.
3. False, Misleading, or Erroneous: information that is just plain wrong.  Some false information may have been held to be "true" at one time, but further research and clinical practice has evolved since then.  (An example would be that the earth was once considered to be flat.  Now most people recognize that it is round.)

 
 

Category: NIMH ADHD Booklet