| Description | Material relating to the production of a British Psychological Society Working Party Report on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) A Psychological Response to an Evolving Concept 1996-1997 includes copy of report, correspondence concerning printing, press release (and drafts), copy cuttings, Also publicity and press release for a Special Issue of the Journal Educational & Child Psychology (Vol 14, no 1, 1997) ADHD: Perspectives from Educational Psychologyy edited by Rea Reas on and Sonia Sharp which included international perspecitves, views of parents and examples of collaboration between health and educational psychologists in the UK. |
| AdminHistory | The Working party was convened by the Professional Affairs Board of the British Psychological Society in August 1995, it was chaired by Rea Reason, and incldued Cyril Hellier, Gareth Hughes, Judith Middleton, Peter Pumfrey, Geoffrey Thorley, Sonia Sharp, Edmund Sonuga-Barke. The report wasw laucned in September 1996. The report recommended that psychologists needed to familiairise themselves and keep up to date with the evolving classifications to ensure that the classification is applied appropriately so that only children with significant impairments are identified when alternative explanations have been thoroughly investigated and environmental circumstances taken into account. There was not always a need for medication and when it was necessarily it should be used in conjunction with psychological and educational interventions. |
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