More than 100 studies have shown that 80% of people who have gone through the difficulty and cost of an evaluation and who have tried at least one ADHD medication are not in treatment of any kind 9 months later. This is the worst “adherence rate” of any diagnosis in all of medicine. If so many people drop out of treatment it is almost pointless to even start the whole process unless we can do something with the person to assure that they can be success in the long run. The approaches in this presentation work and have been shown to produce 90% one-year continuation in treatment which is better than most medical illnesses. These techniques are easily added to the standard approaches to treatment and make a huge difference between success and yet another failure.
Learning Objectives:
- The participant will learn what is going on but unrecognized that dooms most ADHD treatments to failure
- The participant will be able to see the many unacknowledged obstacles to treatment and manage all of them in the first 2 or 3 sessions
- The participant will understand the importance of assertive proactive interventions that solve the problems before they sabotage the treatment
Who: Bill Dodson, M.D.
Biography
Dr. Bill Dodson is a Board-Certified adult psychiatrist who was one of the first clinicians who specialized in adults with ADHD 30 years ago. He was named a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in recognition of his clinical contributions to the field of ADHD (2012).
He has written more than 120 articles, 17 webinars, and 5 book chapters designed to help a lay audience better understand ADHD and its treatment. His article on the new definition of ADHD was selected by the editors of ADDitude magazine as the most influential article of the last 25 years.
