Part 1:
Antshel, K.M. & Russo, N. (2019). Autism Spectrum Disorders and ADHD: Overlapping Phenomenology, Diagnostic Issues, and Treatment Considerations. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21(34), 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s11920-019-1020-5
Do not pay for the research article. It is attached to this assignment.
Read the attached research article and use the research article to answer the following questions:
What is the main goal of this paper? (1 point)
How are social functions the same in ASD and ADHD? (1 point)
How are social functions different between ASD and ADHD? (1 point)
How are executive functions different between ASD and ADHD? (1 point)
In your opinion, how might having a diagnosis of both ASD and ADHD affect a child’s function at school, in social relationships, and/or family dynamics compared to having only ASD or only ADHD? (1 point)
Table 1 lists suggested future research directions. Choose one and explain how you could design a research study to target one of these suggested future research directions. Include what type of study design you would use, what the participants would be asked to do, and what you think the results might show. (3 points)
Part 2:
Read the following research article:
Lewis, R. M., Petch, V., Wilson, N., Fox, S., & Craig, C. E. (2015). Understanding conduct disorder: The ways in which mothers attempt to make sense of their children’s behaviour. Clinical child psychology and psychiatry, 20(4), 570–584. doi: 10.1177/1359104514538040
Do not pay for the article. It is attached to this assignment.
Using the research article, answer the following questions:
How can trauma or difficult family environment put a child at increased risk to develop conduct disorder? Support your answer using at least one specific example from the paper (2 points).
On the other hand, some children with conduct disorder are viewed as manipulative, and children with conduct disorder are more likely to get diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder in adulthood. Find one example in the paper where a parent described her child as manipulative. Why do you think these children are viewed as manipulative? Do children use aggression to get something they want, or do they do it to purposefully inflict harm on others? (2 points)
Some experts believe that conduct disorder is a way that children learn from and adapt to a difficult environment. In your opinion, should conduct disorder be considered a psychological disorder? Should children with conduct problems, like rule breaking, bullying, and manipulation, be punished or be treated in therapy? (2 points).
On page 581 (the 12th page of the article), the authors list many suggestions on how families with a child with a conduct disorder diagnosis can be helped and supported. Explain two of them (2 points).
