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“We should not pathologize ‘normal’.”

Do you include a PVT as part of your standard ADHD battery? If not, I bet you will after this episode! Drs. Julie Suhr and Allyson Harrison are here today talking through their research and experience with validity issues in ADHD assessment. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering if that young adult client REALLY has ADHD or if you should be considering other factors or diagnoses, this is the episode for you. These are some of the topics we cover:

• The most common diagnostic criteria that we ignore when diagnosing ADHD
• An ideal ADHD battery
• The role of non-diagnostic environmental factors in functioning
• Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive power in our assessment instruments

Cool Things Mentioned

• Test of Memory Malingering
• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
• National College Health Survey
• Brooks, Bender, and Iverson normative database on WAIS/WMS
• MMPI-3
• Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
• WAIS Functional Impairment Rating Scale
• Assessment of Feigned Cognitive Impairment, Second Edition
• The Testing Psychologist Advanced Practice mastermind

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Dr. Allyson Harrison

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