1. The Nature of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
2. Biological Etiologies Associated with ADHD
3. Defining Behavioral Inhibition, Self-Control, and Executive
Function
4. Behavioral Inhibition and ADHD
5. Neuropsychological Views of the Executive Functions: The Origins
of a Hybrid Model
6. Additional Evidence Supporting the Existence of the Executive
Functions
7. Constructing the Hybrid Model of Executive Functions
8. Developmental Considerations: Self-Control as an Instinct
9. Extending the Hybrid Model of Executive Functions to ADHD
10. Evidence Supporting Executive Function Deficits in ADHD
11. Understanding ADHD and Self-Control: Social and Clinical
Implications
Russell A. Barkley, PhD, ABPP, ABCN, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Dr. Barkley has worked with children, adolescents, and families since the 1970s and is the author of numerous bestselling books for both professionals and the public, including Taking Charge of ADHD and Your Defiant Child. He has also published six assessment scales and more than 300 scientific articles and book chapters on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, executive functioning, and childhood defiance, and is editor of the newsletter The ADHD Report. A frequent conference presenter and speaker who is widely cited in the national media, Dr. Barkley is past president of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology (the former Division 12) of the American Psychological Association (APA), and of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. He is a recipient of awards from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the APA, among other honors. His website is www.russellbarkley.org.
This is a masterful synthesis of what we know about ADHD from the
clinic and the laboratory. Dr. Barkley's focus on the failure of
hyperactive children and adults to inhibit their behavior has major
and useful implications for diagnosis and treatment. This book will
make a lasting contribution. --Judith Rapoport, MD
Kudos to Russell Barkley for his courage and tenacity in producing
this elegant and eloquent synthesis of facts and concepts about
ADHD. Besides being a landmark work of neuropsychiatric importance,
this book is a great example of the best in scientific thought,
bursting with a joyful creativity that is grounded in but not
constricted by accumulated knowledge and conventional wisdom.
--Martha Bridge Denckla, MD
An important theoretical contribution that will generate a great
deal of research interest. More importantly, the new clinical
approaches that stem from this framework may be of significant
immediate and long-term benefit to our patients. --Lily Hechtman,
MD, FRCP, McGill University
- Not only does this book provide a comprehensive history of ADHD,
but it also offers new perspectives on the contributions of
behavioral inhibition and executive functions to the syndrome.
Numerous behavioral indicators that were not accounted for by prior
theories are addressed by Barkley's new paradigm. This book is
essential reading [and] furnishes valuable information for
psychologists, psychiatrists, and educators. --Contemporary
Psychology, 9/30/2005ƒƒ Many of the ideas presented...are highly
sophisticated. Yet the book is extremely reader friendly....All
terms are clearly explained, and the reader is carefully walked
through all logical leaps. Overall, the book presents what could be
considered the first comprehensive theory of attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder....It leads to numerous testable hypotheses,
and as such, it is likely to stimulate thinking, empirical research
and controversy well into the 21st century. --Psychiatric Services,
9/30/2005ƒƒ This is an extremely important text, full of
information and ideas....Will generate much discussion and
research....The clinical implications are also very provocative,
especially for clinicians using cognitive or meta-cognitive
techniques....This is a seminal contribution and worthwhile reading
for any serious student of ADHD. --Journal of Cognitive
Psychotherapy, 9/30/2005ƒƒ Eloquently offers a fundamentally
different way of understanding the many lifelong psychosocial
struggles that persons with ADHD have to cope with....The author's
model is of enormous value in clinical efforts to find answers to
some frequently asked questions....This book will undoubtedly be
remembered as one that changed the way clinicians responded to the
requests of parents, siblings, and spouses wishing to find a way to
nurture rather than to react with anger, which is frequently
elicited by their loved ones with ADHD. --Bulletin of the Menninger
Clinic, 9/30/2005
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