Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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Psychology

 

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Emily W

 

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August 3, 2013

 

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However, Wender (2000) puts great emphasis on the excessiveness of the symptoms rather than the symptoms themselves. The general characteristics that the APA associates with ADHD patients are attention difficulties and distractibility, hyperactivity and impulsivity (or low self-control). However, these traits do not all have to be present in the child suffering from ADHD, hence the name of the disorder (Wender, 2000)...
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However, these traits do not all have to be present in the child suffering from ADHD, hence the name of the disorder (Wender, 2000). This is why the APA has subdivided ADHD patients into three sub-categories: the inattentive type, where the child is unable to concentrate on a specific task for a relatively long period of time; the hyperactive-impulsive type, where the person gets overexcited frequently and acts or reacts too quickly; and the combined type, where the child presents characteristics of the two aforementioned types of ADHD (Trueit, 2004; Wender, 2000)...
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