Visiting Professor Lecture Series: Multimodal Treatment of ADHD – James Swanson, PhD

Long-term patterns of medication use in the MTA follow-up, and relevance to recommendation #12 of the AACAP Practice Parameter for ADHD

Learning Objectives

• Define “consistent treatment” as the duration of uninterrupted treatment with stimulant medication in the long-term follow-up of the MTA.
• Describe treatment selection biases based on association of baseline and outcome variables with initiation and duration of uninterrupted treatment.
• Characterize the longitudinal trajectories of medication use as annual observations of frequency (% Days Treated per year) and intensity (Absolute and Relative Daily Dose for days treated).

Visiting Professor Lecture Series: Evidence Based Practices – Michael Strober, PhD

Evidence-Based Practices:
A Reckoning
Learning Objectives:

• Enhance the listener’s understanding of the complex structure of psychopathology.
• Illustrate for the listener the variable course of pediatric onset psychiatric illness.
• Address the limitations of current empirically supported therapies in treating complex mental disorders.