How to Assess and Diagnose ADHD in Adults
How to Undertake a Comprehensive Assessment of ADHD using ACE+ and Other Structured Diagnostic Interview Tools
$94.91
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
28 March 2027
Summary
This guide equips healthcare practitioners with the essential knowledge and structure needed to carry out thorough ADHD assessments in adults. Drawing on the authors’ extensive clinical experience and their leadership in ADHD assessment, service development and clinical guideline work, it explains how to evaluate symptoms, functional impairment, and co-occurring conditions with accuracy and confidence.
It distils the core principles of effective semi-structured interviewing and demons…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781805019237 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1805019236 |
| Author: | Susan Young, Alexandra Lewis, Professor Philip Asherson |
| Publisher: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Imprint: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 28 March 2027 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 173mm x 246mm |
Critics Review
Susan Young and Alexandra Lewis’s excellent new book, How to Assess and Diagnose ADHD in Adults, is simply the best clinician guide available on this essential topic. An accurate diagnosis is the gateway to treatment and a better life for adults with ADHD. If you are a clinician who sees adults with ADHD, get this book now! – J. Russell Ramsay, PhD, psychologist specializing in the assessment and psychosocial treatment of adult ADHD and author of Once I Get Started: The Adult ADHD Program for Turning Your Intentions into Actions
Suzy Young and Alexandra Lewis provide clear and comprehensive way for a clinician to follow the DSM-5 diagnostic process for adult ADHD. Their book, combined with her ACE+v.2 questionnaire gives clinicians clarity and confidence in making the diagnosis. – Kathleen Nadeau, PhD, internationally recognised authority on ADHD
Susan Young
Susan Young
DClinPsy, PhD, is a consultant clinical psychologist and director of Psychology Services Ltd. An Honorary Professor at Reykjavik University, she has over 30 years’ experience in the field of ADHD. She has led international ADHD guideline work and developed widely used assessment and treatment programmes, including the ACEv.2 and ACE+v.2 interviews, now available in over 25 languages. Dr. Young has published extensively in clinical and academic settings.
Alexandra Lewis
BMSc, MBChB, LLM, MBA MRCPsychD, is an award-winning consultant psychiatrist with expertise in the assessment and management of ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions across the lifespan, in both general and specialist populations. In addition to extensive clinical experience in ADHD Clinics, she has a central clinical advisory role, contributing to service planning, quality assurance, and strategic developments in NHS ADHD service provision across the UK.
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