100 Questions & Answers About Adult ADHD

by Ava T. Albrecht

Overview

An outstanding reference for the millions of adults suffering from adult ADHD, their families, and their friends, 100 Questions & Answers About Adult ADHD provides authoritative, practical answers to your questions about symptom recognition, proper diagnosis, and treatment. This book is an excellent resource for learning and coping with the medical and emotional effects of Adult ADHD. © 2010 | 150 pages

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763754495
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	07/14/2009
Series:	100 Questions & Answers about
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ava T. Albrecht, MD, is a graduate of Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. She completed her psychiatric residency training in general psychiatry as well as child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. She served as Associate Director of the Adolescent Day Hospital at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City for 8 years prior to taking on her current position as Service Chief of Adolescent Inpatient Services at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. Her past clinical experience includes working in emergency psychiatry as an attending physician in the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program at Bellevue Hospital Center. She as also worked with developmentally disabled youth as a staff psychiatrist in an outpatient clinic setting for the Young Adult Institute/Premier HealthCare. Dr. Albrecht currently maintains a private practice in New York City and New Canaan, Connecticut where she evaluates and treats children, adolescents, and adults, many of whom suffer from depression. With hobbies that include writing and reading, she has both authored and co-authored chapters in books for mental health professionals. This is Dr. Albrecht’s fourth publication in this series, previously co-authoring 100 Questions & Answers About Depression, First Edition, 100 Questions & Answers About Bipolar Disorder, and authoring most recently 100 Questions & Answers About Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Table of Contents

Part1 The Basics
Part2 Diagnosis
Part3 Risk, Prevention, and Epidemiology
Part4 Treatment
Part5 Associated Conditions
Part6 Living with ADHD