CoMorbidity - ADHD
+ Disruptive Behaviors

Alan Unis M.D. is a psychiatrist at the University of Washington and Children's Hospital Medical Center in Seattle.

Untreated ADHD can result in a high school drop out rate, juvenile delinquency and other serious events as in the progression below.

 

CoMorbidity - ADHD + Disruptive Behaviors

 

Notes:

- 1/3 of ADHD children grow up to have comorbidity
- deficits in attention occur in every psychiatric condition
- important to work with oppositional defiant children to try to prevent
     the next step (conduct disorder)
- OD children encourage coercive discipline + then rebel against it
- for conduct disorder, there is no good treatment

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