FACTS, VALUES AND ATTENTION-DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
Facts, values, and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder:
An update to the controversies.
Ana Cristina Garza
Texas A&M University- Kingsville
This article is about a research institute that is holding workshops to examine the controversies that surround the use of medication to treat emotional and behavioral disturbances in children (Parens & Johnston, 2009). Attention Deficit- Hyperactivity Disorder better know for many as ADHD is one of the disorders that get diagnosed more often than any other. In this article we will see how many experts in the field have different but all very well based opinions about the treatments and the over diagnosis that exists in our country. …show more content…
This powerful quote makes us think What is going on in our country? , What is happening? What are we doing different? Or What are other countries doing different? , we do not know if what we are doing is right or wrong because as far as I know it is what we got taught is school and it was to our best knowledge growing up. Parson and Johnston explain how the creators of the DSM system of diagnosis wanted to develop an algorithm that could quickly and reliably identify individuals who needed help, Gabriel Carlson is mentioned in the article and how he mentioned that ADHD is expressed differently in different children and that it differs in severity (2009). This takes me to one of the important points that I considered the article talked about and I would like to implement to make better decisions when diagnosing a child, it says that reimbursement systems require a DSM diagnosis, and this encourages clinicians to record an ADHD diagnosis even when the criteria is not fully met, in order to justify the provision of services, and this makes a huge problem because many children that have symptoms but might not have impairments are receiving medication treatment and children that have fewer symptoms and might have a greater impairment may go undiagnosed and untreated (Parens & Johnston, 2009). This is telling us that decisions are not being properly made, their eagerness to file that reimbursement might be in a child’s record for life and the child will have that label as ADHD. What I would like to implement as a counselor is better train the teachers, because most of the time they are the ones that start the referral, there is many things that may affect a child’s behavior, it can be situations that are going on at home, they
Facts, values, and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder:
An update to the controversies.
Ana Cristina Garza
Texas A&M University- Kingsville
This article is about a research institute that is holding workshops to examine the controversies that surround the use of medication to treat emotional and behavioral disturbances in children (Parens & Johnston, 2009). Attention Deficit- Hyperactivity Disorder better know for many as ADHD is one of the disorders that get diagnosed more often than any other. In this article we will see how many experts in the field have different but all very well based opinions about the treatments and the over diagnosis that exists in our country. …show more content…
This powerful quote makes us think What is going on in our country? , What is happening? What are we doing different? Or What are other countries doing different? , we do not know if what we are doing is right or wrong because as far as I know it is what we got taught is school and it was to our best knowledge growing up. Parson and Johnston explain how the creators of the DSM system of diagnosis wanted to develop an algorithm that could quickly and reliably identify individuals who needed help, Gabriel Carlson is mentioned in the article and how he mentioned that ADHD is expressed differently in different children and that it differs in severity (2009). This takes me to one of the important points that I considered the article talked about and I would like to implement to make better decisions when diagnosing a child, it says that reimbursement systems require a DSM diagnosis, and this encourages clinicians to record an ADHD diagnosis even when the criteria is not fully met, in order to justify the provision of services, and this makes a huge problem because many children that have symptoms but might not have impairments are receiving medication treatment and children that have fewer symptoms and might have a greater impairment may go undiagnosed and untreated (Parens & Johnston, 2009). This is telling us that decisions are not being properly made, their eagerness to file that reimbursement might be in a child’s record for life and the child will have that label as ADHD. What I would like to implement as a counselor is better train the teachers, because most of the time they are the ones that start the referral, there is many things that may affect a child’s behavior, it can be situations that are going on at home, they