Three Options of Treatment Have Been Presented to a Nine-Year-Old

question 81

Multiple Choice

Three options of treatment have been presented to a nine-year-old boy recently diagnosed with ADHD: medication treatment (e.g., Ritalin) alone, intensive behavioural therapy alone, or a combination of the two.What would the research based on the Multimodal Treatment of ADHD study recommend?

• A)Medication alone and the combination of medication and behavioural therapy both are superior to behavioural therapy alone.
• B)Behavioural therapy alone is superior both to medication alone and to the combination of the two approaches.
• C)Medication alone is superior to both behavioural therapy and the combination of the two approaches.
• D)The combination of medication and behavioural therapy is superior to either approach alone.

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