Main description:

This book gives clinicians a framework and tools to accurately assess moodiness in patients with ADHD, and to provide the most appropriate pharmacological and psychosocial treatments for such problems. This book reviews the assessment and treatment of moodiness in ADHD patients of all ages, but focuses primarily on children and adolescents. Chapters review effective assessment strategies for various potential causes of moodiness in patients with ADHD, then psychosocial and pharmacological treatments and their empirical basis. Specific chapters are devoted to the moodiness characteristic of ADHD itself, and to other disorders co-occurring with it such as disorders of mood, anxiety, trauma-exposure, disruptive behaviors, autism, substance use, and medical problems. The also text includes useful case summaries and tables to illustrate key clinical points useful in working with these patients.
Moodiness in ADHD is a potentially vital resource for clinicians wanting to improve their skill working with patients having these challenging problems.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Moodiness in ADHD: Public Health and Clinical Perspectives

W. Burleson Daviss

Chapter 2: Assessment Strategies with Interviews and Rating Scales

Joseph Bond and W. Burleson Daviss

Chapter 3: Mood Disturbance in ADHD Due to a General Medical Condition

John G. Ryder

Chapter 4: Comorbidity of ADHD with Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Alma M. Spaniardi, Renee C. Saenger, John T. Walkup, Breck Borcherding

Chapter 5: Post-traumatic Stress Disorders and ADHD

Erin Barnett, Sarah E. Cleary, Katrin Neubacher, and Burl Daviss

Chapter 6: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation, Other Disruptive and Aggressive Disorders in ADHD

Joseph Blader

Chapter 7: Depressive Disorders and ADHD

W. Burleson Daviss

Chapter 8: Bipolar Disorders and ADHD

Rasim S. Diler

Chapter 9: Autism Spectrum and Other Developmental Disorders and ADHD

Jennifer McLaren, Jonathan D. Lichtenstein, and Sarah Y. Bessen

Chapter 10: Substance Use Disorders and ADHD

Oscar Bukstein and Aaron Roberto, MD

Chapter 11: Moody Adults with ADHD

Lenard Adler and Michael Silverstein