Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hey everyone, it's Susan Coffin and you are listening to Attitude Magazine's ADHD

experts audio. If what you're looking for is clear unbiased information about

ADHD diagnosis and treatment both about the reality of ADHD today

as well as the societal forces that are pushing up the rates of diagnosis, then today's

webinar featuring Dr Stephen Henshaw is a good one for you.

Dr Henshaw's topic today is ADHD, everything you need to know about causes and

treatments and he will be talking about the genetic, the environmental, and the psychosocial factors that cause ADHD.

He'll give us a great overview of the treatment options from behavior medicine to newer brain-based training options and in all in the context of trying to clear

the air of the polarizing and often misleading information that abounds about

attention deficit disorder.

Stephen Hinchell PhD is a great resource for us.

He is a professor of psychology at the University of California

Berkeley, vice chair of psychiatry at the University of California

San Francisco.

His broad work focuses on family relationships, intervention for children with ADHD,

mental health problems, stigmatization of mental health and much more.

He's written nine books including the very recently published

ADHD What Everyone Needs to Know,

which he co-authored with Catherine Ellison

and was published by Oxford University Press just five weeks ago and I

urge you to take a look at it. It's clearly written a great book, no footnotes,

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