Teachers diagnosing ADHD

For children to be diagnosed with ADHD the symptoms of the condition need to have been diagnosed at home and at school so teachers have a crucial role to play in the whole process. However, a review of referrals to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) team in Tower Hamlets suggests that teachers may be over-identifying the condition. Of the 52 children referred to the CAMHS team by teachers 14 of them were considered sufficiently serious to warrant a school observation but of these only 5% were diagnosed with ADHD.

You can read more about this research at

http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/07/08/do-teachers-overestimate-adhd/2567.html