Russell Barkley

Russell A. Barkley (born (1949-12-27) December 27, 1949) is a clinical psychologist who is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the VCU Medical Center[3][4] and an author of books on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).[5][6][7][8][9] Involved in research since 1973 and a licensed psychologist since 1977, he is an expert on ADHD and has devoted much of his scientific career to studying ADHD and related problems like childhood defiance.[10] He proposed to change the name of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) to concentration deficit disorder (CDD).[11]

Russell A. Barkley

Ph.D.
Born (1949-12-27) December 27, 1949
NationalityUnited States
EducationMasters and Doctoral research on ADHD.[1]
Alma materUNC Chapel Hill[1]
OccupationClinical psychologist
Years active1977-Present
OrganizationGuilford Press
Known forADHD research
Notable work
  • Taking Charge of ADHD
  • Your Defiant Child
  • The ADHD Report
  • Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
  • Executive Functions: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved
[2]
TitlePast president of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology (the former Division 12) of the American Psychological Association (APA), and of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.[2]
AwardsRecipient of awards from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the APA, among other honors.
Belief: ADHD is not the result of bad parenting, poor schools, or other social factors but is now recognized as a neurodevelopmental disorder. ADHD fascinates me because it is not an attention disorder but one of self-regulation. That ADHD is due to the fast pace of our culture, sugar, or too much screen time, is simply is a myth.[1]
Future plan: As my career draws to closure, I wanted to preserve the essential elements and discoveries from my life’s work. (May 2020)[1]
Russell Barkley
Websitewww.russellbarkley.org

Author of 23 books and more than 280 scientific papers and book chapters,[3][4] his research articles include multiple papers from his longitudinal study in Milwaukee, WI, his development of a theory of ADHD as a disorder of executive functioning and self-regulation, his early research on family interaction patterns in ADHD children, his more recent studies on the nature of ADHD in adults, early intervention for children at risk for ADHD, training parents to manage ADHD and defiant behavior, and the nature of sluggish cognitive tempo. His research has been cited by more than 91,000 other authors and he has a H-index (citation impact factor) of 133 on Google Scholar. Barkley also edits The ADHD Report, a newsletter for clinicians and parents.[12] Besides his clinical work, he is also an expert in the neuropsychology of executive function and self-regulation. He has given more than 800 invited lectures in more than 30 countries during his career, and is board certified in three clinical specialties: clinical neuropsychology, clinical psychology, and clinical child and adolescent psychology.[3]

Early life and education

Barkley was born in Newburgh, New York. He was one of five children, born to Donald Stuart Barkley (27 February 1916 – 15 June 1999) and Mildred Minerva (10 September 1914 – 25 April 2008). Barkley had a twin brother, Ronald Foster Barkley,[13][14] who was killed in a car crash on 24 July 2006. Barkley attributes his brother's history of dangerous and reckless behavior, including not wearing a seat belt and speeding at the time of his crash, to untreated ADHD.[15] Ronald was several times over the legal alcohol limit, speeding and not wearing a seat belt at the time of his fatal crash.[16]

Barkley married his wife Patricia on 15 March 1969. He graduated from school in Maryland and did a tour of duty in the US air force including a year in Vietnam. He divorced in November 2019.

Barkley earned an Associate of Arts from Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, North Carolina in June 1972, and a BA in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[17] He earned an MA and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.[18] From July 1976 to 1977, Barkley was an intern at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland, Oregon.[17][19]

Career

In 1977, Dr. Barkley began his professional career at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Milwaukee Children's Hospital, where in 1978, he founded the Neuropsychology Service and served as its chief until 1985. He then moved to the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he served as Director of Psychology from 1985 to 2000. Barkley was professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.[20][21][22] In 2005, he joined the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, where he was a consultant and research professor of psychiatry.[23][24] He taught at the Medical University of South Carolina from 2003–2016 and then moved to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, VA, where he currently occasionally teaches in the Department of Psychiatry.[3][4]

Besides his books, he has published 6 clinical rating scales related to ADHD, executive functioning, and impairment.[3][4] One of Barkley's rating scales for adult ADHD evaluates sluggish cognitive tempo.[25] In April 2014 he declined an interview with the New York Times to discuss the disorder.[26]

In response to critics who point to countries with lower rates of diagnoses and medication of children for ADHD, Barkley said, "So what? We do not let the rest of the world set our standards of care when we do more research on childhood disorders--specifically ADHD--than other countries combined?".[27]Barkley was also responsible in getting Gretchen LeFever Watson fired from her job in Virginia after she was reporting high rates of ADHD diagnosis and treatment.[28]Barkley is a leader in the burgeoning sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) research field.[29][30] Barkley writes "The fact that SCT is not recognized as yet in any official taxonomy of psychiatric disorders will not alter this circumstance given the growing presence of information on SCT at various widely visited internet sites such as YouTube and Wikipedia, among others."[11]

Barkley is a political libertarian.[31]. He believes in "Limited government, individual rights, freedom of speech and association, and the nonaggression principle (no one, including the government, has a right to initiate force or fraud against another), and private property rights".[32]

Consultant

He has been a paid consultant, for pharmaceutical companies including Eli Lilly, McNeil, Janssen-Orth, Janssen-Cilag, Novartis, Shire, Takeda pharmaceuticals, and Theravance.[33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]

Between 2009 and 2012 Barkley took over 129k dollars from Eli Lilly.[42]

Alan Schwarz, formerly of the New York Times, in 2016 described Barkley as a “a one-man ADHD public-relations powerhouse” and a “pharma-sponsored scientist”.[43]

Barkley claims "Once convinced of an ADHD diagnosis there is no compelling reason whatsoever to avoid Ritalin".[44] and "All of the research we have indicates that these drugs are some of the safest that we employ in the field of psychiatry and psychology. That's not to say that we know everything about them. But we know a lot more than we know about cough medicines and Tylenol and aspirins and other things that children swill whenever they come down with a common cold. Nobody asks those questions about those over-the-counter medications, yet we know substantially less about them".[45]

Barkley also claims regarding Ritalin and Adderall "They are not addictive whatsoever when they are taken orally. All of the evidence points to these being non-addictive drugs when taken as prescribed".[46]

Books
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment.4th ed. New York: Guilford Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4625-1772-5.
  • ADHD and the Nature of Self Control. New York: Guilford Press, 1997. ISBN 978-1-57230-250-1.
  • Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents. New York: Guilford Press, (3rd ed.) 2013. ISBN 978-1-46250-789-4.
  • With Kevin R Murphy and Mariellen Fischer. ADHD in Adults: What the Science Says. New York: Guilford Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-59385-586-4.
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: The Latest Assessment and Treatment Strategies. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7637-6564-4.
  • Taking Charge of Adult ADHD. New York: Guilford Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-60623-338-2.
  • Executive Functions: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved. New York: Guilford Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4625-0535-7.
  • Defiant Children: a Clinician's Manual for Assessment and Parent Training, 3rd ed. New York: Guilford Publications, 2013. ISBN 978-1-57230-123-8.
  • Managing ADHD in School: The Best Evidence-Based Methods for Teachers. Eau Claire, WI: PESI Publishing and Media, 2016. ISBN 978-1559570435.
  • When an Adult You Love Has ADHD Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2017ISBN 9781433823084

Awards
gollark: Or `Force`.
gollark: How about `Horse`?
gollark: Plus probably lots of five-letter asteroids and stuff.
gollark: Venus too.
gollark: Stars?

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