A Clinician's Guide to ADHD in Women: Diagnosis and Treatment

A Clinician’s Guide to ADHD in Women provides readers with a toolbox of strategic therapeutic approaches for diagnosing, treating, and working with women with ADHD. Clinicians are guided through an integrative approach to identifying and treating women with ADHD, including explorations of hormonal factors and psychiatric conditions that accompany ADHD in women. The psychotherapueutic approach outlined in this guide is pragmatic and solution-focused, including gender-sensitive approaches to treatment, medication, hormonal interventions, and psycho/social treatment. Case vignettes illustrate how an application of strategies, medication, social solutions, and care can facilitate and treat women with ADHD and co-occuring psychiatric conditions. This book is an essential resource for clinicians and treatment providers who wish to transform the lives of women suffering with both diagnosed and undiagnosed ADHD.