Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: assessment and treatment strategies.(Assessment & Diagnosis)

From: Journal of Counseling and Development | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was first described 100 years ago by Still and has been known as hyperactivity, hyperkinesis disorder of childhood, or minimal brain dysfunction (Seidman, Valera, & Bush, 2004). Still (1902) suggested that the symptoms were a result of a lack of moral control and the failure of the individual to conform to the environmental expectations for behavior. At that time, the factors that contributed to this form of moral failure were unidentifiable, but Still speculated, "That there are cortical changes ... seems almost certain from our ...

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