In the Wake of the MTA: Charting a New Course for the Study and Treatment of Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

This paper considers 3 questions addressed by the National Institute of Mental Health's Collaborative Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the MTA study, of pharmacological and behavioural interventions for 7- to 9-year-old ADHD children. First, do behavioural interventions represent a viable treatment option for families of children with ADHD? Second, what are the relative benefits of …