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What’s the Secret to Thriving at Work? 5 Keys for ADHD Adults
What does it look like when people with ADHD thrive at work? How do they craft an environment, or a career, that plays to their strengths?
Career choices and workplace challenges for individuals with ADHD
Remarkably, although work life dominates the waking hours of most adults, little research has focused on ADHD as it affects workplace functioning. As so often is the case, clinical experience precedes research that can quantify and validate clinical observations. In this chapter, I’ll share observations and experiences over many years of clinical practice, addressing workplace issues of young adults and older adults with ADHD.
Neurodiversity, Gender, and Work
Interest in neurodiversity, which encompasses variations in brain function and lifelong differences in cognition and perception (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013), is growing in workplace discussions. Both employers and researchers are beginning to recognize neurodiversity and neurodivergent individuals as valuable assets to organizations, offering unique strengths that can significantly benefit them.
Strengths and challenges to embrace attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in employment—A systematic review
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has a significant impact on psychosocial and occupational functioning. Sixty-five percent of children with ADHD continue to meet full or partial diagnostic criteria for ADHD in adulthood, and an estimated 4% of the workforce has a diagnosis of ADHD. We performed a systematic literature review to understand the experience of ADHD in the workplace.
Life expectancy and years of life lost for adults with diagnosed ADHD in the UK: matched cohort study
Nearly 3% of adults have attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), although in the UK, most are undiagnosed. Adults with ADHD on average experience poorer educational and employment outcomes, worse physical and mental health and are more likely to die prematurely. No studies have yet used mortality data to examine the life expectancy deficit experienced by adults with diagnosed ADHD in the UK or worldwide.