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ADHD in adulthood: A guide to current theory, diagnosis, and treatment. By Margaret Weiss, Lily Trokenberg Hechtman, and Gabrielle Weiss. $49.95. Pp. 358. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
During the mid-1990s, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals became aware of a new phenomenon. Numerous adults were referred or self-referred for management of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Often these individuals had not been diagnosed previously, and they had "self-diagnosed" on the basis of lay information, such as Hallowell and Ratey's (1994) Driven to Distraction. In this volume, Weiss and her colleagues address the concerns of these patients.
This book, the first on adult ADHD for professionals since 1995 (Nadeau, 1995; Wender, 1995), is an excellent resource. The authors have all spent a great deal of time with ADHD patients. Two of the authors have systematically followed a cohort of 100 children diagnosed at ages 6-12 into young adulthood. A wealth of clinical knowledge is melded with a thorough description of societal concerns and a review of the scientific literature.
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