title: Commentary: Does helping mothers with ADHD in multiplex families help children? Reflections on Jans et al. (2015).
abstract: Reflecting on the accompanying article by Jans et al., we draw the following thoughts. Future research on multiplex ADHD families is needed to elucidate mechanisms, timing, and a sequencing of interventions, preferably in treatment naïve participants. Furthermore, in addition to symptom measures, it is likely that multi-informant measures of functional impairments such as parenting and parent-child observations may help elucidate the complex mechanisms linking maternal and child ADHD, and eventually lead to more targeted, efficient, and feasible prevention and intervention strategies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers; D016487:Parenting
keywords: ADHD; methylphenidate; multiplex families; parent training