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and school- or community-level factors associated with receiving a diagnosis of ADHD" According to recent...

in the life of dealing with an adolescent who has ADHD, and for the adolescent to be able to deal with the disorder. Volumes of r...

226) and occurs in as much as 26 percent of the adolescent population, and include alcohol, tobacco and illegal substance use. Su...

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

educators would wonder why so many children have this disorder. It would also seem that some would wonder if many of the individua...

at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do well, but always seemed unable to perform to standard: My earliest recogni...

to high increased use, but this may also be down to increased acceptance and a low baseline. To assess whether or not there is a...

in grades Kindergarten through 8 (Erford and Hase, 2006). It has 24 items that are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, almost never to alm...

classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

researchers found that persons who had diabetes were often readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge (Robbins and Web...

In thirty pages attention hyperactivity deficit disorder and attention deficit disorder are examined in terms of diagnosis or as t...

impossible for this individual to learn or achieve in school. This is not because they are not intelligent enough to do so, it is ...

259). Furthermore, the nature of the classroom environmental and the curriculum can also produce symptoms that mimic those of atte...

many ways and through controlling their bodies, even to death, they have some control over their own destiny. People who have eati...

there are others as well (Glossary of Terms, 2004). For example, MICAA is an acronym for Mentally Ill, Chemical Abusers a...

disseminated across electronic media can make it comparatively easy for unauthorised personnel to access such data. Health care wo...

around 8 or 9 oclock at night, depending on their age. So they have a lot of trouble getting to sleep, and there is a tendency fo...

In seven pages this paper discusses the disorder in terms of definition, symptoms, prevalence, diagnostics, treatment, and the pos...

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

with attention; hyperactive behaviors; and impulsivity. Children who have this condition have great trouble concentrating and payi...

when one considers the premise that depression has been associated with reproductive factors, including a womans menstrual cycle ...

This 3 page paper covers the early diagnosis of 16 month old infants with autism spectrum disorder. This paper covers the diagnosi...

In six pages this tutorial defines ADD, ADHD, and MBD, along with diagnosis and treatments of each outlined and then opines with j...

This paper begins by offering a diagnosis for an individual who suffered a trauma. The diagnosis is post-traumatic stress disorder...

academic performance is widely written about and accepted. Studies indicate conclusively that ADD is associated with poorer academ...

11 pages and 8 sources. This paper considers the impacts of using Ritalin in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Dis...

Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...

In eighteen pages Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is examined in an overview of the diagnosis as described in DSM IV with a literatu...