More people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are turning to coaches for guidance. Those coaches, who often have ADHD themselves, offer similar services to psychologists but don’t think of their work as clinical, according to a study published today in JAMA Network Open.
It’s the first major survey of this rapidly growing field and a prerequisite to studying how safe and effective it is, the authors suggested.
“This is the most systematic information anyone’s ever gotten on ADHD coaching,” said Maggie Sibley, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the paper’s lead author.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were shortages of both ADHD medications and office hours among psychologists who treat ADHD. In parallel, more…