Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine.

Welcome.

My name is Annie Rogers, and on behalf of the Attitude team, I'd like to thank you for joining

today's ADHD Experts Presentation, titled Emotion Regulation Difficulties in Youth.

ADHD Irritability, DMDD, and bipolar disorder.

Leading today's presentation is Dr. William French.

Dr. French is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist in the pediatric clinic at Harbor

View, Seattle Children's Hospital, and Odessa Brown Children's Clinic in the Division

of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine.

He is also an associate professor at the University of Washington.

And today's webinar will discuss the emotional dysregulation associated with ADHD.

If your child struggles with anger, irritability, even rejection-sensitive dysphoria, then

you know that the ability to manage emotions is often delayed with ADHD, and feelings

are often more intense and frequent.

But how do we know if emotional dysregulation is just a part of ADHD or is it something

more like DMDD or oppositional defiant disorder?

Here Dr. French will help caregivers differentiate the likely source of emotion-regulation difficulties,

a task that is challenging even for seasoned clinicians.

We will also discuss how to support kids experiencing irritability.

We will begin today's webinar with this poll question for our live audience.

What aspect of emotion-regulation is most challenging for your child or patient?

Please select your answers and comment in the text box under the video player to tell

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