Episode 34: Dr. Justin Barterian Tells Us If Your ADHD Assessment Was Done Right
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ADHD, Autism, And Anxiety: Breaking Out of The Box
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Welcome listeners. I'm Dr. Noreen Russell, your host for ADHD Autism and Anxiety Breaking Out of the Box. On today's episode we have a very special guest and one who specializes in an area of ADHD practice that you don't hear a lot from on this podcast or at my practice. But increasingly we are seeing many young adults inquire about services at Russell Coaching, and when I found doctor Bartarian, I knew I was going to slip up on this name, doctor Bartarian. I was excited to talk with him about the work that he does and how he really is moving the field of ADHD forward. So let me read you his bio and background and then as always we're just going to dive right into it. doctor Bartarian is a licensed psychologist specializing in ADHD across the lifespan, with particular expertise in adult ADHD assessment, differential diagnosis, and evidence based clinical workflows.
Through Bartarian Psychological Services, he provides consultation, training, and education for clinicians, practices, and organizations seeking to strengthen their approach to adult ADHD assessment. His consulting work focuses on practical, evidence based strategies relating to diagnostic interviewing, differential diagnosis, psychological testing interpretation, report writing, documentation, and assessment workflow development. At the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, he serves as an Associate Director of Ambulatory Services for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, where he helps to shape outpatient care strategy and support the delivery of efficient, high quality behavioral health services.
His professional background includes extensive postdoctoral training in ADHD, more than ten years of clinical experience, leadership in ambulatory services, and specialization in ADHD assessment and multiple awards for teaching excellence. Welcome to my podcast, Doctor Bartarian.
Thank you so much. I'm happy to be here.
I'm thrilled you're here and you are our first expert on the show about adult ADHD. So I feel like we are breaking some new boundaries and maybe breaking out of our child and adolescent box today.
Great, great, absolutely.
All right, as you know, I've got a lot of questions for you. Um, in your practice and on your LinkedIn profile, the words keep coming up over and over again that I love. Evidence-based practice, best practices. And so that's what I'd like for us to focus on today. And to dive right in. Will you help our listeners understand what should they expect if they are an adult and they seek an ADHD evaluation? What separates a great ADHD assessment from a rushed or a more superficial one?
Absolutely. So I think a great ADHD assessment is gonna have several components to it. Uh the biggest component is a very thorough clinical interview. Um, where I like to think of it as I am uh pla getting to play detective and I'm trying to put all of the pieces of information together to see what is uh contributing to the difficulties the patient or the client may be experiencing. Um and so there's several things that we would need to rule out and rule in. Uh you know, we could be looking at other mental health disorders like anxiety or depression. We could be looking at trauma, we could be looking at academic challenges. Um, but essentially, you know, that first component is gonna be a good clinical interview where we go through childhood history, education history, uh, for our adults occupational history to really get a good understanding of how they're functioning and in the in what context have they been functioning.
And then from there, we also want to get a thorough accounting of mental health symptoms. Um, I want to know, you know, when, you know, if they've had previous diagnoses of other mental health disorders and when those disorders started, uh, when they began, when treatment, if they had any treatment, and if that treatment improved outcomes. So we're really looking at trying to get this full picture of this person. Um, one of the biggest components of an ADHD evaluation is getting ratings of symptoms.
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–16:38
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What should an adult expect during a comprehensive ADHD assessment?
16:38–30:19
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How does a thorough clinical interview help differentiate ADHD from other conditions?
30:19–37:44
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What role do symptom rating scales and collateral reports play in diagnosing ADHD?
37:44–40:16
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Why are rushed ADHD assessments problematic and what do they miss?
40:16–51:35
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