Tutorial - homework

Contact HV's and discover what clinics they run for developmental and behavioural problems.

What activities do they do at these clinics

Pick one or two of these activities and try to find some evidence suggesting that they are beneficial (or otherwise)

Info from Oxford Textbook of Primary Medical Care p1040-1042

A chronic, pervasive disorder of behaviour and learning; characterised by developmentally inappropriate degrees of inattention and impulsiveness, with or without hyperactivity.

Prevalence in school-age children: UK 0.1%, USA 3-5%

DSM-IV diagnostic criteria - see Wikipedia article

Gordon (see Ox Text for reference) gives 6 'Guideposts' to ADHD diagnosis:

1. Impulsivity

2. Severity

3. Onset before 7 years of age

4. Pervasiveness (e.g. symptoms present at home and at school)

5. Chronicity (symptoms present for at least 6/12)

6. Intentionality (unless comorbid with oppositional-defiant disorder or conduct disorder' child exhibits remorse about behaviour and cannot control it without extreme effort )

Other conditions affecting attention and learning include: situational stress, family discord/dysfunction, depression, anxiety, medication, drug misuse, physical illness.