PSYCH 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Behaviour Therapy, Fidgeting, Neural Development
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More than 80% continue to meet criteria through the end of adolescence. High risk for delinquency, school failure, substance abuse, driving accidents. Symptoms still show up in relationships, college. Hard to diagnose in adulthood since only have person and no peer reports. Adults are faking adhd symptoms to get prescriptions. Boys have adhd at a higher rate. Girls are more likely than boys to have inattentive type. Just like boys with adhd, there"s academic, social, and later, vocational. Rates of unplanned pregnancy rise in girls who grew up with adhd b/c of impulsivity and poor planning. Girls who are up with adhd have a higher risk for injuring themselves (intentionally [suicide] or non-suicidal self injury) Social preference (who likes you/doesn"t like you) mediates actual suicide. Guendelman - if girl with adhd (combined) and early maltreatment really predict a serious outcome of suicidal behavior. Kids with adhd tend to have lots of other problems (oppositional defiant disorder,
