Our Process

Clinic assessments for adults at The ADHD Centre are held with an expert consultant psychiatrist and typically last between 60-90 minutes (this includes time taken to review case notes before and after the assessment).

Our years of expertise will ensure you receive the most accurate and reliable assessment to inform your bespoke treatment plan.

Before taking part in your assessment, you’ll be asked to complete a simple symptom checklist and a few registration forms, and then you’ll be walked through a structural clinical assessment at our adult ADHD clinic.

Our assessments are based on the latest DSM-V criteria for adult ADHD, known within the industry as the gold standard of assessment criteria for diagnosing the different subtypes of ADHD.

The assessment process for anyone aged 5-17 is similar in many ways to an adult assessment. The assessment will be carried out by a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with specific expertise in assessing and diagnosing ADHD as well as general psychiatric conditions in this age group. The assessment time is typically a little longer 90-120 minutes (this includes time taken to review case notes before and after the assessment).

Children’s ADHD assessments consist of a structured clinical assessment for ADHD using the Conners 4 diagnostic assessment tool. This well-recognised tool has three components (Teacher, Parent and Child) and is used to help your Consultant Psychiatrist to get a better objective understanding of how your child’s ADHD symptoms may have affected them throughout their life.

You will meet with one of our Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists to complete the assessment. The doctor will take a detailed assessment of your child’s presenting symptoms, how the symptoms have developed over time, past medical history, developmental history and family history.

Following this, the doctor will formulate a differential diagnosis, taking into consideration all the above information. This will then form the basis of an individualised treatment plan, which is designed to ensure that your child receives the best possible management and care.

Following your assessment we will send you, via secure email, a detailed report from your Consultant Psychiatrist, outlining any diagnosis and treatment plan details. We will aim to send this within 2 weeks of your assessment (this may be longer if there is important outstanding information that we are waiting for, such as Conners questionnaires from school for child assessments).

Yes, we offer a specialist ADHD coaching programme. We can arrange a free introductory coaching call after your initial assessment. This discovery call will explain how our specialist behavioural coaching programme can help you in overcoming certain ADHD symptoms that may be holding you back from reaching your goals.

We offer parent training, advice and guidance.

We have also developed our unique Online Essential Mindfulness Course, that you can sign upto which provides unique exercises for help with specific ADHD symptoms. You can read more about this here https://www.adhdcentre.co.uk/mindfulness-membership/.

We offer a range of ADHD services. Please see our ADHD treatment pricing page for more information.