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Child Mental Health for Pediatric Clinicians

31. ADHD, Anxiety, or both? Making the right diagnosis with Dr. Jeffrey Strawn

06 Feb 2024

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Send us a textADHD and Anxiety and highly intertwined, so how can you tease them apart?Join us as Dr. Jeffrey Strawn shares clinical pearls about how to detect whether a child has ADHD, anxiety, or both! We discuss:* the consequences of untreated ADHD (especially social and educational impacts)* how ADHD and anxiety are related  and that 30% of kids w/ ADHD have anxiety, too!Some take home messages are:1 – When screening kids for ADHD, also consider using the SCARED-5 to screen them for anxiety!2 – Good clinical question to ask kids about anxietyo   “How good are you at worrying?”o   “What would happen IF (the thing they fear occurred)?”3 – To distinguish between clinical anxiety disorder and an anxiety trait..            Ask, is [ the thing they are worried about] reasonable/expected?            Is the anxiety proportional to the stressor?Dr. Jeffrey Strawn is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.  Dr. Strawn directs the Anxiety Disorders Research Program and conducts clinical trials and neuroimaging studies in patients with anxiety and related disorders.  He is an internationally recognized expert int he field of child and adolescent anxiety disorders.Check out our website PsychEd4Peds.com for more resources.Follow us on Instagram @psyched4peds

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