So what steps should clinicians take of psychopharmacologic treatments and school behavioral

strategies are insufficient for managing a child with ADHD? We've all been there. ADHD, attention

deficit hyperactivity disorder, of course, affects millions of children and adolescents worldwide,

and can significantly impact focus and impulses and engaging with friends.

Parents and caregivers really need to understand the different kinds of medications and therapies

that are available to help manage ADHD. So in this podcast, Mara and I will explore the various

treatment options for ADHD and children and discuss how to navigate

the process of selecting more effective treatments for your patients.

When we first recorded this podcast, which has been in the can for a while, it was a somewhat

different situation, even just a year and a half ago. That underlines how much medicine changes.

So you'll hear in this podcast changes in our voices because we've stripped out and added in

things to bring this podcast up to date. And again, that underlines how medicine changes so fast

that even knowing something one year, you don't necessarily

know it two years from now, and a really good reason to keep doing continuing education,

cycling through different topics so that we don't stay behind.

I'm Dr. Josh Vader, the editor-in-chief of the Carlat Child Psychiatry Report and co-author of the newly released second edition of the Child Medication Fact Book for Psychiatric

Practice.

And I'm Mara Government, a licensed clinical social worker in Southern California with a private

practice and an avid reader of the call at reports.

So what we're going to do is we're going to talk through our recently published algorithm

in the Child Medication Factbook for Psychiatric Practice and give you our go-by of how we approach attention deficit hyperactivity.

So Dr. Fader, where do we begin on discussion?

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