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Case study: A six-year-old boy with AD/HD. Oral presentation within the symposium entitled “Deficiencies of the current classification systems of mental disorders: The case of Attetion Deficit / Hyperactinity Disorder (AD/HD)” at the 1^st Interational Conference of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece, Thessaloniki, Greece. Book of Abstracts, p. 197.

According to the current diagnostic criteria of mental disorders, Dimitris is a typical case of a boy presenting Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). Dimitris was referred to our Center by his teacher a few months after entering primary school because of the serious behaviour and learning problems he was facing. Regardless his teacher’s and parents’ important efforts to help him, Dimitris hadn’t managed to learn how to read and write at a period when almost all his classmates had mastered the basic academic skills. Furthermore, he presented particularly aggressive behaviour at the school setting which had led his own parents to despair and had made the other parents to consider him as a threat for their children.

Dimitris’ parents had seeked advice from a speech therapist when Dimitris was four-years-old because he was presenting delay in speech development and articulation problems. Moreover, his hyperactive and impulsive behaviour had been causing him problems with the other children since he was attending kindergarten.

Through the case of Dimitris, we will attempt to reveal usual parental concerns about the nature of AD/HD and our thoughts regarding diagnosis and therapeutic intervention from a clinical point of view.