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George DuPaul and Lee Kern

Behavioral Interventions Effective Tool in ADHD Treatment

May. 24, 2025

Medication has long been seen as the primary treatment for children struggling with attention, impulsivity and hyperactivity. Approximately 90% of all stimulant prescriptions in the United States from 2012 to 2022 were written for the treatment of ADHD reinforced by the belief that ADHD is a purely biological disorder requiring a pharmacological fix.

A recent op ed by COE professors George DuPaul and Lee Kern published in Penn Live suggests that the role of behavioral parent training [BPT] may be underutilized. For young children, especially those under six, leading health authorities, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), recommend that parents pursue behavioral interventions (specifically BPT] before turning to medication.

Read more at https://bit.ly/43rTKH4.

    Bob Boyer and Lori Anderson

    Making Mountaintop a Better Place

    Once a week, Lori Gallagher Anderson arrives on Lehigh’s Mountaintop Campus with fresh groceries for the food pantry housed in Iacocca Building. Transporting all of those supplies into the building can be a challenge. “There are days I have my wagon piled high and multiple bags slung across each shoulder,” she laughed. But Anderson receives help from an unexpected source: a campus transit driver.

    Lisa Sandilos

    Sandilos Selected for 2025 Class of '61 Professorship

    Lia Sandilos, an associate professor in the School Psychology program, has been selected for the 2025 Class of '61 Professorship for the College of Education. This award recognizes faculty members who have achieved the rank of associate professor and have shown distinction in teaching, research and service.

    Josselyn Alvarenga

    Alvarenga Prepares for a Career in Community Research

    Josselyn Alvarenga, a second-year doctoral student in the COE’s Counseling Psychology program, is passionate about supporting healthy child development in marginalized families. Her research looks at how culture shapes the ways in which young children learn to handle and show their emotions.

    Focusing on Black and Latinx families, Alvarenga looks at how parents and caregivers respond to their child’s distress, the child’s feelings of closeness and security with their caregivers, and how the child manages stress. She hopes that her research and the research of others within the Hands and Hearts Together project where she works, will promote wide-scale changes that positively impact family relationships and behaviors in these communities.