Term | Definition |
| Clinician | Health professional, such as medical doctor (general practitioner, psychiatrist, paediatrician), nurse (mental health nurse, nurse practitioner), allied health professional (psychologist, occupational therapist, speech pathologist), pharmacist. |
| Educator | Teacher, early childhood educator, lecturer |
| Young children | Children aged below 5 years |
| Children | Children aged 5 to 12 years |
| Adolescents | People aged 13 to 17 years |
| Children and adolescents | Children and adolescents aged 5 to 17 years |
| Adults | People aged 18 years and above |
| Diversion | The illegal distribution or abuse of prescription drugs or their use for purposes not intended by the prescriber |
| Co-occurring condition/disorder | A disorder that is diagnosed in an individual alongside another disorder |
| Condition | This is the preferred term for a medical, mental health or developmental disorder. |
| Cognitive-behavioural interventions | The term “cognitive-behavioural interventions” is used to refer to a broad range of approaches that use cognitive and/or behavioural interventions to minimise the day-to-day impact on functioning from ADHD symptoms. |
| Cognitive training | Interventions intending to improve aspects of cognition such as attention and memory (and ultimately broader aspects of functioning such as ADHD symptom severity) via the use of computerised training programs. |
| Parent/family training | Parent/family training refers to interventions aiming to help parents to optimise parenting skills to meet the additional parenting needs of children and adolescents with ADHD, through cognitive-behavioural parent training delivered directly to parents (or primary carers). |
| Environmental modifications | Changes that are made to the environment to support a person with ADHD in their day-to-day life and maximise their activities, participation and quality of life. |
| Mental health conditions | Conditions that affect mood, thinking and behaviour. These include anxiety, depressive disorders and others. |
| Neurofeedback | A form of biofeedback that applies principles of operant conditioning to brain electrical activity to teach self-regulation of brain function. |
| Neurodevelopmental disorder | Conditions that occur in the developmental period where there are differences in the achievement of developmental milestones. Includes ADHD, autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disorders, communication disorders and tic disorders. |
| Specific learning disorders | Learning and academic skill challenges in specific areas including reading, spelling, written expression and mathematics. |
| Transition | The transfer of the care of a person with ADHD from one service to another |
| Follow-up | Follow up of a trial efficacy 3, 6 or 12 months after the end of treatment |
| Post treatment | Immediately after the conclusion of treatment in a trial |
| Supported decision making | Involves supporting a person to make their own decisions by giving them the tools they need to do so, to safeguard their autonomy. |
