ADD/ADHD Analysis

I remember watching old home videos of me and my sister and observing the contrast of our personalities even though she’s older than me by just one year.I specifically remember in one of those old tapes, my sister being loud,talkative and outgoing rambling about a bumblebee and me sitting in a corner attempting to pull the phone cord out of the wall.It was evident that I was the more shy and quiet sister.Around age five is when my character started to bloom due to my exposer and love of dance.

However, junior year of high school changed that: I was given the opportunity to take either AP Psychology, or AP European History. I felt that the obvious choice would be to take AP European History, since I’m European and therefore already had a solid foundation for succeeding in the class, but something inside me told me to take a blind leap of faith and choose AP Psychology instead. This choice proved to be one of the greatest decisions I have made in my life. Through this class, I emerged myself into the world of psychology and fell in love with it. I didn’t complete the assignments to get a good grade. I completed them because I cherished every minute of it, and I started applying the materials learned in class to real life

It is very hard and troubling for those that are always in trouble in school, at

Ban, Els Van Den, et al. “Association between ADHD drug use and injuries among children and

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) seems to be the affliction of this generation of children. It seems more prevalent every year. However, diagnosis criteria for ADHD is so subjective, what qualifies, who qualifies? There is no specific clinical cause for ADHD but it obviously exists. So many questions remain to be answered about ADHD. Are more children really being diagnosed with ADHD annually and is it really on the rise as it appears? Are too many children being wrongly diagnosed with ADHD as an easy way out because of other behavioral problems? And when ADHD is properly diagnosed are we overmedicating our children to make it easier for parents and teachers to cope? How often are other afflictions

The website provided by Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), is The National Resource Center on the disorder ADHD. With so many informative websites on different disorders and diseases, it can be hard to decide where to get the best, most credible information. The NRC is and CHADD have teamed up to provide a website that is an evidence-based platform for ADHD (CHADD, 2015). There are some common misconceptions of ADHD and even people who may doubt that this disorder exists, or doubt the validity of the disorder. The purpose of this website is to educate the general public on ADHD and it does a thorough job of doing so. The website shatters all misconceptions and proves the disbelievers wrong. It uses

This review Diagnosing ADHD, from WebMD will show that there is no one source to diagnose or treat children and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). WebMD, is a peer reviewed website to research just about anything medical. There are three types of ADHD, Primarily Inattentive, Primarily Hyperactive or Combination of the first two and each will be explained to its appeal to rhetoric. The article will show accuracy, authority, objectivity, and currency.

The most recent edition of manual for ADHD , is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) which was released in 2013 that changed how ADHD is being diagnosed in children and adult.

I was born with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder or ADHD for short, but in all honesty, I wasn’t that self-aware of anything being wrong. Trouble began early in school, teachers who called me out were just dicks in my mind who didn’t get my sense of humor. If you were born color blind you may know something’s different, but unless you’re told something was wrong, you’d have no idea that you couldn’t see red. That’s how I felt in elementary school, being hyper and distracted was just me. Granted I was a little too much sometimes, but I really didn’t know why I was being singled out all the time. The problem was, I was hyper all the time. At home and school, it was very hard for me to calm myself down and mirror the behavior of everyone

3. to determine the degree of consistency between the sources and across situations with respect to reports of behaviours associated with ADHD.

In providing services to the youth and the school, the issues and concerns are numerous, but, not limited to bullying, racism, learning disabilities, emotional disturbances and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). To combat these issues and concerns, I suggest holding an open forum to educate and teach teachers, parents, students and the communities on how to cope and deal with these issues. Furthermore, engaging students with learning disabilities and ADHD in after school learning activities and rallying against the negative impact of bullying and racism can also be

One thing I do not quite understand is, why is it our job to explain terminology to parents? If the child is to attend school they need to have vaccinations and sometimes a checkup by a physician. So wouldn’t it be the Dr. or physician’s job to diagnose a disability and explain it to the caregivers. Now I understand that ADHD sometimes goes undiagnosed or unobserved, but if the disability is so bad they have to be put in special education classes shouldn’t it have been noticed before this?

The study titled “Illicit use of Prescription ADHD Medications on College campuses, by DeSantis, Webb, & Noar, (2008) from the Journal of American College Health,” is both quantitative and qualitative in design, because the authors used mass surveys to gather statistics and in-depth interviews to collect personal information.

In the Matthies study, Risky Decision Making in Adults with ADHD, which analysis the study of ADHD’s effectiveness on adult decision making, Matthies had discovered that ADHD patients' emotions play a significant role in influencing their decision making process, thus making it risky. Brand proposed that advantageous decision making under risk conditions is driven by strategies as well as emotional feedback processing (Brand et al., 2006). Therefore, it is assumed that ADHD individuals chose the risky alternatives in our study for sentimental reasons, for example for the fun and reward of risk rather than to gain money by weighing the probabilities of gain and loss. The article goes on to discuss two studies, in which one study had said ADHD

This study examines five elementary general education teachers who were interviewed and observed during professional development meetings that focused on ADHD and followed up with six months after professional development ended. The study discusses the challenges teachers face when there are students in the class with ADHD. Students with ADHD are at risk for having difficulties in reading and writing. The basic characteristics of qualitative studies are mentioned. In the abstract, Murphy (2015) states, “This paper investigates the experiences of a group of teachers who participated in a collaborative learning community devoted to improving their literacy teaching for students with characteristics of ADHD. Five elementary general education classroom