TOPIC: Misdiagnosis

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Information Resources
• Arguments About Whether Overdiagnosis of ADHD is a Significant Problem
• Schools and the Challenge of LD and ADHD Misdiagnoses
• Normalization and Popularization of Mental Illness and Its Impact:
  Personal Experience and a Look at Research Findings
• Selective Mutism: A Student Reflects on Her Misdiagnosis, Experiences, and Outcomes

Guides
• Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment

Publications
• Mental Health in Schools: Opportunities and Challenges

Policy Notes
• Time for straight talk about mental health services and mental health in schools

Practice/Guidance Notes
• Common Behavior Problems at School: A Natural Opportunity for Social and Emotional Learning
• Countering the Over-pathologizing of Students' Feelings & Behavior: A Growing Concern Related to MH in Schools
• Determinants of Students’ Problems
• Just a Label? Some Pros and Cons of Formal Diagnoses of Children
• Minimizing Referrals Out of the Classroom
• Prereferral Interventions
• Response to Intervention

Quarterly ejournal/newsletter
• Countering LD and ADHD False Positive Diagnoses: Another Pandemic Challenge
• Labeling Troubled and Troubling Youth: The Name Game

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

• ADHD among American school children: Evidence of overdiagnosis and overuse of medication.
• Childhood mania, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder: a critical review of diagnostic dilemmas
• Considering Historical Context, Current Societal Trends, and Implications for Understanding Harm in Youth Mental Health Treatment
• Disparities in ADHD assessment, diagnosis, and treatment
• Disproportionality and Learning Disabilities: Parsing apart race, socioeconomic status, and language
• Evaluating the evidence for and against the overdiagnosis of ADHD
• From a child who IS a problem to a child who HAS a problem: fixed period school exclusions and mental health outcomes from routine outcome monitoring among children and young people attending school counseling
• Increasing prevalence of parent reported Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder among children
• Is ADHD diagnosed in accord with diagnostic criteria? Overdiagnosis and influence of client gender on diagnosis
• Managed Mental Health Care: Intentional Misdiagnosis of Mental Disorders
• The Mental Health Crisis of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents: A comparison with ADHD and major depressive disorder
• Misdiagnosis, Mistreatment, and Harm — When Medical Care Ignores Social Forces
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder misdiagnosis among mental healthcare providers in Latin America
• Overdiagnosis of mental disorders in children and adolescents (in developed countries)
• Prevalence of low scores on language tests as a potential factor in misdiagnosis of cognitive impairment in a Spanish-speaking adult population
• Psychiatric Disorders in Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities: Longitudinal Data on Diagnostic Disagreement in 150 Clients
• Reducing the overidentification of childhood ADHD: a stepwise diagnostic model
• Self-Diagnosis of Mental Disorders
• Sociodemographic Disparities in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment During Elementary School
• Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes
• Unraveling the dangers of mental health self-diagnosis: a study on the phenomenon of adolescent self-diagnosis in junior high schools

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