Attention-Deficit Disorders and Comorbidities in Children, Adolescents, and Adults

by Brown, Thomas E.

• ISBN13: 9780880487115
• ISBN10: 0880487119
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc

Summary

Edited by a leading researcher and practitioner, Attention-Deficit Disorders and Comorbidities in Children, Adolescents, and Adults brings together the work of 25 distinguished contributors. The first section, ADDs With Comorbidities, details the effects of ADHD on a variety of comorbid disorders (e.g., anxiety and mood disorders, sleep disturbances, obsessive-compulsive disorder, oppositionality and aggression, Tourette syndrome, learning disorders, and developmental coordination disorder, and substance abuse). The second section, Assessment and Interventions for ADDs, details assessment and diagnosis, pharmacotherapy, psychosocial and educational interventions, and a cognitive therapy perspective on ADHD, with a concluding chapter that emphasizes the importance of tailoring treatment to the individual.

Author Biography

Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Yale Clinic for Attention and Related Disorders and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	xvii
Attention-Deficit Disorders With Comorbidities
Emerging Understandings of Attention-Deficit Disorders and Comorbidities	3	(54)
Thomas E. Brown
Genetics of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder	57	(22)
James J. Hudziak
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With Mood Disorders	79	(46)
Thomas Spencer
Timothy Wilens
Joseph Biederman
Janet Wozniak
Margaret Harding-Crawford
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With Anxiety Disorders	125	(46)
Rosemary Tannock
Attention-Deficit Disorders With Oppositionality and Aggression	171	(38)
Jeffrey H. Newcorn
Jeffrey M. Halperin
Attention-Deficit Disorders With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	209	(22)
Thomas E. Brown
Attention-Deficit Disorders With Learning Disorders in Children and Adolescents	231	(66)
Rosemary Tannock
Thomas E. Brown
Learning Disabilities and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: Overlap With Executive Dysfunction	297	(22)
Martha Bridge Denckla
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With Substance Use Disorders	319	(22)
Timothy E. Wilens
Thomas J. Spencer
Joseph Biederman
Attention-Deficit Disorders With Sleep/Arousal Disturbances	341	(22)
Thomas E. Brown
Edward J. Modestino
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With Tourette Syndrome	363	(30)
David E. Comings
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Developmental Coordination Disorder	393	(14)
Christopher Gillberg
Bjorn Kadesjo
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Preschool Child	407	(30)
Beth A. Shepard
Alice S. Carter
Jennifer E. Cohen
Subgroups of Adult Outcome of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder	437	(18)
Lily Hechtman
Assessment and Interventions for Attention-Deficit Disorders
Assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Comorbidities	455	(54)
Donald M. Quinlan
Pharmacotherapy of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder	509	(28)
Timothy E. Wilens
Thomas J. Spencer
Joseph Biederman
Psychosocial Interventions for Attention-Deficit Disorders and Comorbid Conditions	537	(32)
Thomas E. Brown
Cognitive Therapy for Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder	569	(38)
Stephen P. McDermott
Educational Interventions for Students With Attention-Deficit Disorders	607	(30)
George J. DuPaul
Thomas J. Power
Tailoring Treatments for Individuals With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Clinical and Research Perspectives	637	(16)
Peter S. Jensen
Howard Abikoff
Index	653