Friday 18 November 2016
The Grand Central Hotel, 99 Gordon Street, Glasgow, Scotland G1 3SF
Keynote speaker - Professor Rosemary Tannock, Professor Emerita, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto (Canada); and Senior Scientist, Neurosciences & Mental Health Research Program, Research Institute of the Hospital for Sick Children
Delegate registration
Member £105
Non-member £135
Student/trainee £65
To book please print out and fax/post back the attached PDF booking form to 020 7403 7081
If you’d prefer to book over the phone with your credit card please call tel: 020 7403 7458 or book online at www.acamh.org/events/2016/11/third-national-conference-controversies-adhd
Overview
This conference focuses on controversies in ADHD, seeking to answer the following questions:
- How beneficial are medical, psychosocial, cognitive and educational approaches to ADHD?
- Are stimulants over- or under-prescribed? Is the evidence base for stimulants so poor that they cannot be prescribed with confidence?
- How can young people with ADHD be helped into adult services?
- Do parenting interventions work?
- What educational strategies are helpful?
- What promising new approaches are emerging?
Programme
-Reconceptualizing ADHD as a chronic neurodevelopmental condition: implications for scientists and practitioners
-Transitions to adult mental health services for young people with ADHD: Policy and practice
-Do psychosocial / non-pharma interventions work?
-Are stimulants over or under prescribed for ADHD? Is the evidence base for stimulants so poor that they cannot be prescribed with confidence?
-Psychoeducation in ADHD: preaching to the converted
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