Editorial: It is time to modernize the concept of ADHD!

‘Modernizing the concept of ADHD’ (MocA) Team

doi:10.1111/jcpp.13812

Editorial: It is time to modernize the concept of ADHD!

‘Modernizing the concept of ADHD’ (MocA) Team

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Abstract

People with ADHD in our society struggle, and they often report that they experience a lack of full acceptance in society. The realization that the current situation is suboptimal for individuals with ADHD and for society as a whole leads to a call of researchers, clinicians, and people with lived experience and their families for a modernized concept of ADHD. This new concept should take the discourse on ADHD to the next level: from a limited, symptom- and impairment-driven paradigm to a dynamic model that acknowledges ADHD's heterogeneity and integrates weaknesses and strengths, focused on individual trajectories in functioning and self-management.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	845-847
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Volume	64
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13812
Publication status	Published - Jun 2023
Externally published	Yes

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This editorial was written with and on behalf of the MocA Team. The MocA Team so far includes the following Dutch researchers and healthcare professionals: Barbara Franke, Catharina Hartman, Emma Sprooten, Nanda Rommelse, Hans van de Velde, Tycho Dekkers, Arnt Schellekens, Marjolein Luman, Sophie van Baalen, Martine Hoogman, Miha Lavric, Jan Buitelaar, Nina Roth Mota, Ruth Peters, Sandra Kooij, and Petra Verhoef. In addition to the institutes they are employed at, we work together with the ADHD representative organizations Balans, Impuls & Woortblind, and ADHD-Europe, with several mental healthcare organizations for children and adults, with several healthcare insurance companies, with the MedTech companies Super Brains and Orikami, and with the Dutch employee insurance organization. Several additional organizations and professionals contribute to MocA as cooperation partners.

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Dutch employee insurance organization
Petra Verhoef

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Humans
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/therapy

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