دانلود کتاب اختلال کمبود توجه (بیش فعالی) – راهنمای تشخیص و درمان

This fourth edition constitutes a nearly complete revision and update of the third edition, comprising at least 80% or more new material, a substantial expansion of topical areas covered on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and at least triple the number of contributors in comparison to the prior edition. While it is essentially a new textbook, like its predecessors, this edition strives to extract from the mine of available scientific literature those nuggets of clinically important information regarding the nature, assessment, diagnosis, and management of ADHD in children, adolescents, and adults. The task of doing so has increased substantially with each new edition given the increasing frequency of journal articles relating to ADHD appearing in the scientific literature, now estimated to be at least 800–1,000 per year, a rate that seems to have doubled in just the past few years owing to a vast increase in the number of international contributors outside of Western Europe and North America. More than 6,000 studies on ADHD have been published since the publication of the 2006 edition of this work. So formidable an undertaking requires the assistance of many more contributors than in prior editions, for it is clear that no single individual can be an expert in all facets of this disorder and its management. To help me with this endeavor, I have invited back many of the principal authors of chapters from the previous edition, along with many new contributors, each expert in the topics contained in their respective chapters. All were charged with incorporating new findings and new conclusions and clinical recommendations from the available research and related publications. I am truly grateful that all agreed to join in this endeavor. In order to draw out the messages essential for clinicians within each chapter, all chapters conclude with a checklist of “Key Clinical Points,” most of which I prepared to help the reader quickly summarize the major conclusions and recommendations discussed in that chapter. From time to time, media flare-ups have centered on ADHD, sometimes challenging its very existence. Taken in its totality, this book is a complete refutation of such assertions. It continues to show, as did previous editions, that ADHD is as valid a mental disorder as we are likely to find, with massive evidence from more than 10,000 studies dating back to medical descriptions in 1775. It clearly represents a serious deficiency in one or more psychological adaptations that harm the individuals so afflicted, which is the very definition of a mental disorder. As in previous editions, I once again thank Kitty Moore, Seymour Weingarten, and Robert Matloff at The Guilford Press for supporting this book and providing a home for this and my other books. I also wish to thank Carolyn Graham, Jacquelyn Coggin, and Laura Specht Patchkofsky at Guilford for helping to shepherd this book through the publication process in a professional and expeditious manner. My debt to them and the rest of Guilford’s superbly capable staff for having assisted me for more than 33 years of publishing is incalculable, and I express my deep appreciation to all members of the Guilford “family” here. I am also extraordinarily appreciative of my wife, Patricia, who has stood by me for more than 45 years and provided a loving home for me, our two sons, Ken and Steve, now all grown up, and now our two grandsons, to whom this edition is dedicated. All provide me with a profound sense of family and their affection, for which I am exceptionally grateful. In such a home can this type of creative work be accomplished.