ADHD: Medication and Treatment Considerations

This webinar shares information to enhance participants’ ability to help parents care for child welfare-involved children with ADHD, with a special focus on monitoring and oversight of treatment modalities, including psychotropic medication.

Presenters: Theodore Pikoulas, PharmD, Associate Director of Behavioral Health Pharmacy Programs, Community Care of North Carolina; and Abby Pressel, PhD, and Andrew S. Preston, PhD, both of Chapel Hill Pediatric Psychology.

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Medications are an important part of the treatment toolkit for many patients with ADHD. But they don’t work for everyone, may carry side effects, and simply aren’t an option for some people with comorbid conditions. Each child with ADHD needs a holistic treatment plan — one that targets symptoms while taking into account the whole child and their interactions with family, friends, school, and community. An effective plan will include various important interventions, used with or without medication, to help your child succeed.

In this hour-long ADHD Experts webinar, Sandy Newmark, M.D., explains how food, exercise and sleep can benefit children with ADHD.

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ADHD: Medication and Treatment Considerations

This webinar shares information to enhance participants’ ability to help parents care for child welfare-involved children with ADHD, with a special focus on monitoring and oversight of treatment modalities, including psychotropic medication.

Presenters: Theodore Pikoulas, PharmD, Associate Director of Behavioral Health Pharmacy Programs, Community Care of North Carolina; and Abby Pressel, PhD, and Andrew S. Preston, PhD, both of Chapel Hill Pediatric Psychology.

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If you're asking the question 'is anxiety hereditary?' then this video should be of interest to you. In this short explained video we'll try to answer the question 'is anxiety genetic or learned?'.

Anxiety is not always hereditary however studies do show that genetics play at least some role in whether a person will suffer from an anxiety disorder or not.

About half of all people that are diagnosed with panic disorder have a relative with the same disorder. GAD (or Generalized Anxiety Disorder) is slightly less hereditary with around 40% of relatives sharing the same disorder. People with relatives that have been diagnosed with OCD are shown to be 9 times as likely to also suffer from obsessive compulsive disorders.

Genes and hereditary however are just one part of the reason that a person develops an anxiety disorder. Work stress and other reasons can lead to a person without any anxiety in their family to still suffer from one of these disorders.

ADHD: Medication and Treatment Considerations

This webinar shares information to enhance participants’ ability to help parents care for child welfare-involved children with ADHD, with a special focus on monitoring and oversight of treatment modalities, including psychotropic medication.

Presenters: Theodore Pikoulas PharmD Associate Director of Behavioral Health Pharmacy Programs Community Care of North Carolina; Abby Pressel, PhD and Andrew S. Preston (both of Chapel Hill Pediatric Psychology).

https://adhdadulttreatment.com/adhd-medication-and-treatment-considerations/