ADHD in Children and Adults - The Health Report: 9 May 2005

The Health Report: 9 May 2005 - ADHD in Children and Adults

This radio transcript has a really interesting discussion with several Australian adhd specialists - the most interesting messages were that:

• a multi-modal treatment approach works best (i.e. medication plus behavioural intervention). Which has been my argument for many years!
• adhd may be under-diagnosed as medical professionals are not educated about it
• genetic predispositions to adhd are not understood very well as yet
  

"There's been a very large American study, the multi model treatment study, which when it first came out caused real shock cause they found that well maintained medication was more effective than not just behavioural intervention but behavioural intervention plus medication and this had enormous impact. But three years down the track it's now clear that behavioural intervention does help as well but very, very expensive behavioural intervention, they had summer camps, they had parent training programs, they'd teach your assistance a whole range of things."
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s1360262.htm