Social and emotional impairment in children and adolescents with ADHD and the impact on quality of life.
This review provides an overview as to how the social and emotional impairments involved in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder affect the quality of life of patients and their families. A model of three categories into which the emotional difficulties fall, and how they impair quality of life, is also presented.
Lilly Deutschland, Medical Department, Bad Homburg, Germany. wehmeier_peter@lilly.com
Peter M
PM
Wehmeier
Alexander
A
Schacht
Russell A
RA
Barkley
D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011788:Quality of Life