118- Assessing Your Child's ADHD Medication Treatment as the School Year Begins
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2015
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Last year's treatment plan may not provide the coverage your child needs for this school year. David Rabiner, Ph.D., explains how to assess the plan, adjust accordingly, and involve teachers in monitoring the medication's effectiveness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:12.0 | Hi everyone, good afternoon I'm Susan Coffin I'm here for Attitude |
| 0:16.8 | magazine's ADHD experts audio series welcome to everyone who's |
| 0:21.0 | joining us today and to our guest speaker Dr David Rabinner of Duke University |
| 0:26.5 | Dr. Rabinner will be discussing a topic of huge interest to any parent of a child with ADHD and that is |
| 0:34.2 | How to monitor your child's treatment effectively. As all of you know from experience it can be quite |
| 0:38.0 | difficult to figure out what the best treatment plan for a child, how to |
| 0:41.5 | monitor your child's symptoms and adjust treatment is Dr. Revener's topic today. |
| 0:47.5 | So he'll also discuss determining how your child symptoms are affecting his school life, medication management tips, and monthly assessment strategies for finding the right dosage. |
| 0:59.0 | Dr. Revenor is a research professor in the Department of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. This research focus, |
| 1:05.7 | scientific focus has been on the long and short term impact of attention |
| 1:09.3 | problems on children's academic achievements as well as the non-medical use of ADHD medications by college students. |
| 1:17.0 | He has published over 50 scientific papers in scholarly journals and received multiple federal grants to support his work. |
| 1:23.6 | In recent years since 1997, he has published a wonderful online newsletter, which I can't |
| 1:27.8 | recommend to you enough. |
| 1:28.8 | It's called Attention Research Update, and it helps parents, educators, and health professionals keep up with new |
| 1:34.5 | research on ADHD. Thank you so much for joining us, Dr. O'Connor. We're so |
| 1:38.6 | pleased to have you. Well thank you Susan and glad to be here and glad to see there are so many folks watching and listening in today. |
| 1:47.6 | I'm going to talk about, as Susan said, monitoring your child's ADHD treatment. I can't stress enough how important this can |
| 1:59.2 | be and that I really feel that learning how to do this and making sure it happens is really one of the most |
| 2:06.2 | important things that any parent can do to really try to help maximize the long-term success of their child. So it's a topic that's really near and dear to my heart. |
| 2:19.0 | So let's just start by talking briefly about what ADHD treatment monitoring is. |
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