The Critical Psychiatry Network's contribution to the stakeholder
consultation process in formulating the NICE guidelines on treatment of
ADHD is great: see p34-98 of the attached.
There's also more relevant stuff by the CPN in another document on the
NICE website, see:
http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action=download&o=42055
Good luck.
J.
Charles Marley wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I've been on the list for some time now but this is my first posting - I'm
> in need of some help and hoped that the list could provide this for me. Me:
> I work in a CAMHS service in Stirling in Scotland (I've also been in touch
> with David Fryer at Stirling Uni - again, thank you David). I started in my
> post about a year ago and have been asking critical questions about the
> position the service takes on a number of issues since then. these are
> generally ignored (but I keep asking anyway!). I also attempt to take as
> much of a community approach as I can (which is not easy as the system is
> fairly medically and mainstream clinical psychology dominated).
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> The reason I'm posting today is to ask for articles, websites, books, what
> other people are doing, anything at all, on alternatives to the current
> medical/psychological approach to dealing with what is viewed as ADHD. The
> service I work in views ADHD as a real disorder with a neuro-biological
> basis - I've been raising questions about the validity of this position with
> very little impact. Over the last few months the issue of ADHD has become
> more central within the service mainly because we are receiving more and
> more referrals from GPs, schools, parents etc - I believe this to be a
> consequence of promoting the medical notion of ADHD within the afore
> mentioned groups and offering a 'cure' in the form of medication. A number
> of other factors are also at play - i.e. the service has a system
> specifically for diagnosing ADHD, which is run by someone who also runs a
> private business offering teaching on ADHD and how to manage it!
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> The service has ordered an 'extraordinary meeting' in relation to ADHD and
> my concern is that the meeting is going to be the individuals with the
> dominant view trying to force the rest into holding the same view and then
> attempting to develop a 'team approach' to 'managing ADHD'. I see the
> meeting as an opportunity to raise questions about the position being taken
> by the service. I was also hoping to take along some alternative approaches
> for supporting families that take into account the person's situation,
> context, environment, past exposures, social inequalities etc, as this may
> be more of a challenge to ignore than my questions have been. I've read
> 'Making and Breaking Children's Lives' and got a lot from that but I thought
> I'd put the question to list to see what other resources are available.
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> Many thanks,
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> Charles
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