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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Clinical Workbook, Second Edition.

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment, Second Edition

Russell A. Barkley

Updating and expanding Russell Barkley's acclaimed Handbook, this new second edition incorporates the latest findings on the nature, diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of ADHD. Clinicians, researchers, and students will find practical and richly referenced information on nearly every aspect of the disorder. As in the previous edition, Barkley is assisted with selected chapters by seasoned colleagues covering their respective areas of expertise and providing clear guidelines for practice in clinical, school, and community settings. In-depth assessment and treatment guidelines for adolescents and adults as well as children are supported by updated outcomes documentation, and three new chapters focus specifically on working with adults. The second edition also explicates Barkley's groundbreaking theory of ADHD as a developmental problem of self-control, evaluates DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, and surveys established and emerging pharmacological approaches.

Practitioners wishing to implement the assessment and treatment recommendations delineated in this edition are advised to purchase the companion Workbook, which contains a full set of forms, questionnaires, and handouts, in a large-size format, with permission to photocopy.

 Contents

Preface
I. Nature and Diagnosis
1. History, Barkley
2. Primary Symptoms, Diagnostic Criteria, Prevalence, and Gender Effects, Barkley
3. Associated Problems, Barkley
4. Comorbid Disorders, Social Relations, and Subtyping, Barkley
5. Etiologies, Barkley
6. Developmental Course, Adult Outcome, and Clinic-Referred ADHD Adults, Barkley
7. A Theory of ADHD, Executive Functions, and Self-Regulation, Barkley
II. Assessment
8. Diagnostic Interview, Behavior Rating Scales, and the Medical Examination, Barkley and Edwards
9. Tests and Observational Measures, Gordon and Barkley
10. Integrating the Results: Eight Clinical Cases, Hathaway, Dooling-Litfin, and Edwards
11. Assessment of Adults with ADHD, Murphy and Gordon
III. Treatment
12. Counseling and Training Parents, Anastopoulous, Smith, and Wien
13. A Large-Group Community Based Family Systems Approach to Parent Training, C. E. Cunningham
14. Training Families with ADHD Adolescents, Robin
15. Educational Placement and Classroom Management, Pfiffner and Barkley
16. Student-Mediated Conflict Resolution Programs, C. E. Cunningham and L. J. Cunningham
17. Stimulant Medications for ADHD Children, DuPaul, Barkley, and Connor
18. Clinical Use of Antidepressant Medications for ADHD Children, Spencer, Biederman, and Wilens
19. Other Medications for ADHD Children, Connor
20. Psychological Counseling of Adults with ADHD, Murphy
21. Pharmacology for Adults with ADHD, Wilens, Spencer, and Biederman 

About the author

A clinical practitioner, scientist, and educator, Russell A. Barkley, PhD, is Director of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. In 1978, he founded the Neuropsychology Service at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Milwaukee Children's Hospital and served as its Chief until 1985. Since then, he has established the clinics for both child and adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, where he continues to conduct numerous ongoing studies of this disorder. The author of Taking Charge of ADHD, Dr. Barkley's other publications include Defiant Children, Second Edition, ADHD and the Nature of Self-Control, and several acclaimed video programs on ADHD and childhood defiance. He is coeditor of Treatment of Childhood Disorders, Second Edition, and editor of the newsletter the ADHD Report. He also serves on the editorial boards of five scientific journals and as a consulting reviewer for numerous others. The recipient of the C. Anderson Aldrich Award for child development research from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Barkley has presented more than 500 invited public lectures, professional workshops, and scientific addresses internationally. In 1988 he was President of the Section of Clinical Child Psychology, Division 12 of the American Psychological Association, and in 1991 he served as President of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

Reviews

Praise for the previous edition: "The most comprehensive and timely tome available on disorders of attention and hyperactivity....Invaluable not only as a handbook for clinical practitioners, but also as an authoritative source for scientists, scholars and students."
-Child and Family Behavior Therapy

"...truly the handbook on the diagnosis and treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in the 1990s."
-American Journal of Psychiatry

" Most impressive....Barkley has put together a definitive up-to-date summary of our knowledge of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder that is enhanced by 53 pages of references. This book is a must for any clinician or researcher concerned with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder."
-Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

"This is an outstanding book. Russell Barkley has provided a reasonable and even-handed guide to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It is readable, up-to-date, and will inform the psychiatrist about behavior therapy and the psychologist about drug treatment. It will help everyone with educational placement and classroom management. This is the most comprehensive and useful book on ADHD that has been published to date."
-Judith L. Rapoport, M.D., Chief of Child Psychiatry, NIMH