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Activity: Can you identify the characteristics of ADHD?
After you watch the videos
A quick overview of differences (Rucklidge, 2010):
Compare the table above with the one that you filled in after watching the videos and discuss.
Additional Challenges for Young Women
Adolescent females with ADHD are more at risk of developing, “major depression, multiple anxiety disorders, Bipolar disorder,… and substance dependence(Rucklidge, 2010, p.359).”
The increased risk for anxiety and depression could be due to the higher ratings of internalising problems in females. Females with the inattentive form of ADHD also showed higher rates of separation anxiety compared to males with the same form. There are perceptions that females are not as challenged compared to males but this is in no way true. Females have actually been found to be as challenged as their male counterparts (Rucklidge, 2010).
Separation anxiety disorder (SAD) is a type of mental health problem. A child with SAD worries a lot about being apart from family members or other close people. The child has a fear of being lost from their family or of something bad occurring to a family member if he or she is not with the person.
https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default?id=separation-anxiety-disorder-90-P02582
