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Hyperkinetic disorder: assessment and treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mary Cameron  and
Peter Hill
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Hyperkinetic disorder is the generic ICD-10 (WHO, 1992) term used to describe one of the most common childhood psychiatric disorders. It is a severe form of a syndrome which is referred to in DSM–IV (APA, 1994) and the American literature as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Hyperactivity or hyperkinesis can be defined as “an enduring disposition to behave in a restless, inattentive, distractible and disorganised fashion” (Taylor, 1994). It is thus more than motor overactivity. Diagnostically there are three main groups of symptomatology: overactivity, inattentiveness and impulsiveness.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , May 1996 , pp. 94 - 102
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1996 

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