Is ADHD Caused By Bad Parenting?
Researchers do not yet know exactly what causes ADHD.
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Few psychological conditions have generated more discussion in recent years than Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Yet people continue to harbor many mistaken beliefs about it.
Researchers do not yet know exactly what causes ADHD.
ADHD behaviors drive family discipline and relationship problems, not the other way around.
Dr. Margaret H. Sibley discusses what to do if you’re interested in a supplementary or alternative ADHD treatment you have learned about online.
Fact: Individuals with ADHD can concentrate when they are interested in or intrigued by what they are doing.
FACT: Boys are diagnosed two to three times as often as girls, but about 4.2% of girls have received a diagnosis of ADHD at some point in their life.
Fact: Everyone does have a physical difference in their brain. But it’s not necessarily ADHD!
FACT: Parents do not cause ADHD. The disorder comes from the accumulation of many environmental and genetic risk factors.
Fact: While some children may recover from their disorder by age 21 or 27, the full disorder or at least significant symptoms and impairments persist in 50-86% of cases. Russell A. Barkley, PhD In the 1970s, when I first came into my profession (clinical child neuropsychology), it had been commonplace to view ADHD, or its … Read more
FACT: There are more than 100,000 articles in science journals on ADHD (and its precursor labels) and references to it in medical textbooks going back to 1775.