
EXPERT REACTION: Senate report on assessment and support services for people with ADHD
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The Senate has released their report on assessment and support services for people with ADHD. The report has called for national consistency in diagnosis and treatment to improve the lives of those with the condition. Aussie experts give their thoughts on the inquiry report below.
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The Australian ADHD Professionals Association (AADPA), the organisation that prepared the Australian Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline for ADHD, has provided the following statement in response to remarks made by some experts regarding the recommendations in the Senate report.
Associate Professor Oliver Schubert is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide, the Clinical Director of headspace Adelaide Early Psychosis, and Head of Unit – Continuing Care and Youth, Northern Adelaide Mental Health Network
Louise Brown is the Lived-experience Director of the Australian ADHD Professionals Association. She is a PhD Candidate at Curtin University, an ADHD consumer advisor for Monash University, an accredited but non-practicing registered nurse and ADHD coach, and lived-experience advocate.