Psychological and Clinical Approaches to Attention Disorders

Our main objective: identification of the statistically most significant factors that might explain the development of major mental illness (MMI) amongst attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADHD) and attention deficit disorder (ADD). Our further study objective was to examine gender dependency of ADHD and MMI. Our study included 294 subjects. Research instruments: school files, subjects' or parents' interviews, medical documentation, IQ scores. Our results should be referred to as being strictly exploratory: our hypothesis was partially established: psychological treatment by itself has no effect on the attention impaired developing MMI. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of PSIWORLD 2012