Abstract intended for presentation in a seminar
ADHD is curable - an introduction to precise diagnosis and effective therapy.
Some people cannot focus their attention on the tasks they have been given with the desired precision and endurance. Because they are quickly distracted, they find it hard to finish tasks the have begun. In school, work and private life, this often leads to major restrictions for those affected.
In most cases, the symptom of the lack of concentration is explained by attention deficit syndrome, i.e. ADHD. But many misinformation and misunderstandings ensure that sufferers do not always receive an accurate diagnosis and also not optimal therapy.
Here are some of them:
"If you can't concentrate, you have ADHD." – False. Many other diseases have the same symptoms as ADHD, but need to be treated very differently. An exact diagnosis is therefore absolutely necessary, only in this way the therapy fits the patient.
"ADHD grows out all by itself." – False. Without therapy, the brain can't make up for its deficit. "Ads is not curable." – False. Under certain therapeutic conditions, the brain can evolve and learn missing skills. A lifetime of treatment is then not
necessary. So ADHD is curable.
"There is no objective diagnosis for ADHD – False. There have long been objective tests to determine lack of concentration, volatility, restlessness and impulsivity. Unfortunately, however, many ADHD diagnoses still rely on the purely personal assessment of the diagnostician ("eye diagnosis"). It is even more fatal for those affected if psychologists or doctors rely too much on the perception of parents, teachers, educators and nurses – that is, on the opinion of laity people!
Uncertainty in dealing with ADHD also extends to the regulation of drugs and other therapies. If the diagnosis is not correct, the treatment based on it will hardly bring any benefit. The lack of demarcation to similar symptoms can lead to an ineffective drug being increased in dosage; In the worst case, therapy and medication even prove to be harmful. In addition, the therapy decisions are often in the hands of people who are not sufficiently trained to do so.
Until a few years ago, for example, 90 percent of all Methylphenidate prescriptions in Germany were issued by non-specialists. Meanwhile, the politics have reacted:
Certain drugs for the treatment of ADHD may only be prescribed by child and adolescent psychiatrists, pediatricians with additional qualifications as well as adult psychiatrists. But this does not solve the problem of subjective and correspondingly unreliable diagnoses and therapies. There have long been objective methods that capture the ability to concentrate with high measurement accuracy and
expressiveness; However, they have rarely been used in Germany.
This is partly because they are little known among professionals, and partly because most of them are not reimbursed by health insurance companies to this day. Other European and non-European countries are already one step further.
This seminar (and my book, published in Germany in 9.2019) critically questions the current standards and presents special ways to achieve a fast and reliable diagnosis and therapy control in which the OPATUS CPTA test method, a proven tool for
objective ADS diagnosis plays a central part. It can easily be refinanced from health insurances (in Germany), the cost per test is 10,-€ per test in Germany.
My seminar is not only aimed at colleagues who, in their practices, are increasingly in touch with the subject of ADHD and want to engage with it more and more frequently.
It also wants to inform people with ADHD and their families. Diagnoses and therapies often leave them perplexed; Their desire for safety is great. Many sufferers and their loved ones ask themselves: "Is the diagnosis I have lived with for many years really correct?" And also: "How is it that for a number of years almost every child with certain behavioral problems is supposed to suffer from ADHD?"
In my experience, they have mostly dealt so extensively with the subject of ADHD that scientific terms and complex contexts cannot frighten them. This seminar is intended to provide clarity and support the audience in better assessing the quality of diagnosis and therapy. If necessary, it empowers them to actively demand sound diagnostics, multimodal therapy and therapy control.
It's worth it. After thirty years of professional psychiatric activity with children, adolescents and adults, I know that if it is really an ADHD and the highest standards of diagnosis and therapy are applied, this disease is curable. Lifelong drug or
therapeutic treatment is no longer necessary.
Objectives:
1. State of the art in diagnosis of ADHD 2. State of the art in treatment controls 3. Avoiding lifelong treatment of ADHD
Contact information:
Dr. med. Ralph Meyers
Socialpsychiatric Center Dr. Meyers Suedwall 15, D 46282 Dorsten, Germany +492362/92950
mail: dr.meyers@gmx.de
website: www.meyers-dorsten.com
CV:
Born 17.10.1957 in Hamburg / Germany Degree MD from University Hamburg 1983 Promotion: University Hamburg 1984
Clinical training in internal medicine 1983-1984, adolescent psychiatry 1985-1989, child/adolescent psychiatry 1989-1992, psychotherapy 1989-1991.
Consultant in child/adolescent Psychiatry 1991
CEO Socialpsychiatric Center Dr. Meyers for child/adolescent psychiatry since 1993 Member of Ethics Commission University Muenster
Leading investigator
Consultant Pharm Pro, KVWL Dortmund
Moderator for clinical training in child/adolescent psychiatry Member of: BKJPP, DGKJP, DGZ, WFADHD, ADHS-Netz Deutschland
Conflict of interests:
none
