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

Good afternoon everyone.

Hey, how are you? I'm Susan Coffin. I'm here for Attitude Magazine's weekly

ADHD experts broadcasts. Today we'll be talking to Dr Stephen Hinshaw about the special issues of girls and women with attention deficit disorder.

You know, not so long ago, ADHD was pretty widely considered a condition for boys and then boys who it was thought outgrew the condition in

adulthood we really now know that girls and boys are at equal risk for developing

attention deficit disorder and that it is often a lifetime condition for either

gender. What's more the stigma surrounding ADHD is pretty often stronger for

women which can delay diagnosis, can delay treatment and especially when the inattentive type symptoms are mistaken for something else, depression, anxiety, whatever it may be.

So we're so fortunate to welcome Dr Henshaw here today.

He's a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley,

where he served as department chair from 2004 through 2011

to talk about ADHD and women and girls how it presents what effective treatments

may be and why the stigma of ADHD can even be growing. Dr. Henshaw has widely

published research over 300 published articles focusing on developmental

psychopathology in a number of areas of mental health.

He has written extensively on the stigmas of mental health specifically and is the author of 12 books including the ADHD explosion.

Miss Medication Money and Today's Push for Performance.

For more information he can find his website

W. W. W. Stephen with a pH Hinshaw author.

com.

So thank you so much for joining us today.

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