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__ ADHD and Trauma __

Researchers have found that the children who experience ADHD symptoms often have experienced hardships in their childhood. For example, divorce,poverty,neighborhood violence,substance abuse in family members,death of a parent/guardian, domestic violence, incarceration, and mental illness and discrimination. Researcher Dr. Brown and her colleagues studied information from a 2011 National Survey of Children's Health that had parents answer questions on their child's symptoms and if they had experienced any of the hardships mentioned and researchers found from the information that was given by the parents is that children who have gone through more than four of these environmental hardships "were three times more likely to be using ADHD medication versus children who have experienced three or less of these hardships" says Dr. Brown. This new research was conducted to show that clinicians shouldn't just stop at diagnosing children with ADHD but consider children's past trauma experiences in order to provide the best treatment and diagnoses. The topic of this article has insights to our textbooks. I am not sure if this specific study will be in it anytime soon but it is an interesting factor on how children with ADHD that have experienced these hardships should be treated and diagnosed.

American Academy of Pediatrics. "Study finds ADHD and trauma often go hand in hand." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 May 2014.
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