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Impairment in Patients with ADHD

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Please refer to the back of the book where scales are provided for the Weiss scale which identifies impairments.

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Sadek, J. (2014). Impairment in Patients with ADHD. In: A Clinician’s Guide to ADHD. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02359-5_4

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