Hyperactivity in children: Is there a treatment of choice?
Psychology in rhr Schools
1980. 17, 500-506
HYPERACTIVITY IN CHILDREN:
IS THERE A TREATMENT OF CHOICE?
R. 0. PIHL
McGill University
Recent studies of treatment procedures for hyperactivity, with special focus on
methylphenidate treatment, are reviewed from the perspective of three central
questions: What is the effect of the treatment? What is the cost of the treatment? Why
does the treatment work? The problems in answerin
