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Because attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) seems to be a simple medical diagnosis with an unusually effective medical treatment, nothing before has attracted so much business for child psychiatry. Like any business that booms when it is not ready, child psychiatry risks going bust. This is an analysis to inform our urgent business planning in a UK context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comments on the child psychology article 'A New Taxonomy: The Uluru Personal Experiential Prole,' by Kenneth Nunn, Dasha Nicholls and Bryan Lask. Effectiveness of DSM and ICD diagnostic system for diseases; Challenges in practicing the child psychology; Proposal to create a single classification system for mental illness.

Good science and clinical practice are based on sound logical thinking. The bioscientific 'medical model' is learned by doctors in their original training, then brought and adapted to the field of mental health by psychiatrists. This article uses 'conduct disorder' as a test and clarification of the rationale of the otherwise valuable medical model and the limits of its applicability in child psychiatry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]