Dr. Zoe Smith, Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago, delivers a video abstract on her JCPP paper ‘Academic motivation decreases across adolescence for youth with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Effects of motivation on academic success’.
Authors: Zoe R. Smith, Marcus Flax, Stephen P. Becker, Joshua Langberg
First published: 10 May 2023
Open Access paper doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13815
Through the ACCTION Lab at Loyola University Chicago I focus on community-based assessment and intervention development for youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT). We are a health equity focused lab that uses liberation focused methods to increase engagement and understanding of treatment needs for youth that have been systemically oppressed (e.g., creating culturally responsive interventions for Black and Latina/e/o by listening to needs of the community and allowing flexibility in the intervention development). We focus on working with Black and Brown youth and their families using a cultural responsiveness and healing-focused lens. This is particularly important for youth with ADHD, who often face discrimination, oppression, and racism related trauma in school, the medical system, and from peers. I also have expertise in longitudinal data analyses and psychometrics. Currently, we are working on Project CRAFT (Culturally Responsive Assessments for Teens), which is focused on creating healing and strengths based psychodiagnostic assessments for teens from systemically oppressed backgrounds (i.e., Black, Latina/e/o adolescents with ADHD). (Bio from Loyola University, Chicago)
Other resources
- Featured paper ‘Academic motivation decreases across adolescence for youth with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Effects of motivation on academic success’, (2023). Zoe R. Smith, Marcus Flax, Stephen P. Becker, Joshua Langberg
Discussion
How much do genes play into these disorders?
Nature effects all of us and only if we have a fixed view of who we are and why we do the things we do and when we do them can we modify our behaviour. We are all on the spectrum, some more than others, but nature goes against change of direction. Most people do not like or seek to change their personalities/behaviours. Nature seeks variation in all life’s creatures so should we just accept those who are different to you or me in their behaviours as long as they are not damaging to us?