Association For Child And Adolescent Mental Health (acamh)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21203 Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, this podcast series focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families. We are delighted to produce this podcast series in partnership with Clinical Partners, the UK’s largest private mental health partnership. This episode is the first of a two-part special on Women and ADHD, and Blandine is joined by Dr. Jo Steer, a clinical psychologist. Blandine and Jo begin by discussing how ADHD can look so different in different people and explain the gender differences in the presentation of ADHD, before turning to explore why women and girls are more commonly missed than boys in terms of diagnosis. Blandine and Jo provide insight into why it is so important to get a diagnosis, and comment on how female hormones can affect ADHD, with Blandine sharing her own lived experience perspective. With women with ADHD more at risk of teenage pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy, and more likely to engage in r