Academic Motivation in Youth With and Without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.24655
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Zoe Smith discusses her JCPP paper ‘Academic motivation decreases across adolescence for youth with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Effects of motivation on academic success’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13815). Zoe is the first author of the paper.
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:

• An overview of the self-determination theory of motivation.
• How motivation presents in young people with ADHD and how this may differ from youth without ADHD.
• Surprising and unexpected findings from the JCPP paper.
• The interventions that are known to foster autonomy growth in young people with ADHD.
• The implications for child and adolescent mental health professionals, policymakers, education professionals.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.