Full Description
A Clinician's Guide to ADHD in Women provides readers with a toolbox of strategic therapeutic approaches for diagnosing, treating, and working with women with ADHD.
Clinicians are guided through an integrative approach to identifying and treating women with ADHD, including explorations of hormonal factors and psychiatric conditions that accompany ADHD in women. The psychotherapueutic approach outlined in this guide is pragmatic and solution-focused, including gender-sensitive approaches to treatment, medication, hormonal interventions, and psycho/social treatment. Vignettes illustrate how an application of strategies, medication, social solutions and care can facilitate and treat women with ADHD and co-occuring psychiatric conditions.
This book is an essential resource for clinicians and treatment providers that wish to transform the lives of women suffering with both diagnosed and undiagnosed ADHD.
Contents
1. The Problem of Underdiagnosis 2. Diagnosis of ADHD in Women 3. Diagnostic Complexity: Co-occurring Psychiatric Conditions 4. Treating ADHD in Women: A Plan for Success 5. Medications for the Treatment of ADHD 6. Medication Treatment for Co-Occurring Psychiatric Conditions 7. Common Medical Conditions Associated with ADHD 8. ADHD and "The Hormone Connection" 9. Psychotherapy for Women with ADHD - a Bio-Psycho-Social Approach 10. Expanding Your Therapeutic Tool Kit to Help Women with ADHD 11. Making External Changes to Build an ADHD-Friendly Life 12. Creating and Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle 13. Looking at ADHD in a New Light—It's Not Just for Little Boys Anymore
