James Swanson, PhD, Facilitator
Dr. Swanson is a developmental psychologist who
specializes in research and the treatment of children with AD/HD.
His initial work at the University of California, Irvine focused on
school-based interventions for children with AD/HD, establishing a
public school on the UCI campus where clinical and educational
interventions were combined. Starting in 1990, the focus of Dr.
Swanson’s research expanded to address etiology of AD/HD.
Dr. Swanson developed a laboratory school paradigm that has become a
standard method for evaluating the efficacy of psychoactive medications
for the treatment of children with AD/HD. Dr. Swanson received his
Ph.D. in psychology from the Ohio State University in 1970.
Session: FR1-Research Symposium I-Girls with
ADHD, Montreal Study, Milwaukee Study
Ideas behind the Berkeley Girls ADHD
Longitudinal Study (BGALS), which began in the 1990s will be discussed.
Then findings from the childhood, adolescent, and young adult phases of
this study, which involves the largest cohort of childhood-diagnosed
girls with ADHD in existence, 95% of whom have been followed through a
mean age of 20 will be discussed.Discussion of (a) means of retaining
long-term samples and (b) differences between long-term outcomes in this
study and those of males with ADHD--which include, for BGALS, a
strikingly high rate of suicidal and self-injurious behavior in late
adolescence and young adulthood.
The presentation will also describe the
Montreal Longitudinal Study which followed children with ADHD and normal
matched controls prospectively for 15 years from mean age 8 to 26 years.
Different adult outcomes will be described, as well as factors which
influence these outcomes.
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