Gain the confidence to carry out and write up a structured ADHD assessment for both children and adults. This one-day, CPD-certified course is led by an experienced consultant psychiatrist with extensive experience in ADHD.
£297. 6 CPD hours. Next course November 28th 2026.
Every course runs live on Microsoft Teams from 09:30 to 17:00 and costs £297.
Registered healthcare professionals who assess ADHD, or want to start, in NHS or private services. You don’t need to have done a formal ADHD assessment before.
Not sure where your role fits? Read who can diagnose ADHD in the UK.
You’ll use DIVA-5, Young DIVA, Conners 4, QbCheck and school reports. The day is about diagnostic assessment and reporting. It doesn’t cover prescribing.
How ADHD presents across the lifespan, gender differences, masking, overlap with autism, consent, capacity and safeguarding.
Eliciting symptoms accurately, taking full histories, assessing risk and forming a clinical impression.
Opening the consultation, mental state, weighing the evidence and making the diagnostic decision.
Structuring the report, mapping findings to DSM-5, setting out alternative explanations and recommendations.
Where you fit within the AQAS and CAAQAS frameworks. What good supervision looks like.
Time to bring your own cases and questions to the trainer.
Dr Faridi is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist working across NHS and private practice. He is on the GMC Specialist Register, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a GMC-approved trainer. He has also received Clinical Excellence Awards.
He has trained and supervised doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other clinicians in ADHD assessment and safe prescribing. His teaching roles have included clinical and educational supervisor, MRCPsych teacher, CASC examiner and GP trainer.
“I found the one-day ADHD assessor training to be extremely thorough, informative, interactive and well structured. Questions and discussion were encouraged throughout the day, creating an open and supportive learning environment.”
Nicola Van der Velde, RMN, CAMHS ADHD Assessor, CBT and EMDR Therapist
Pay online and you’ll get a confirmation email with your Microsoft Teams link straight away.
Take part live from home or work, with case discussion and time for questions.
You’ll receive your ADHD Diagnostic Assessor CPD certificate, the templates and an invitation to the clinicians network.
Not by itself. The course gives you the frameworks, tools and report templates to assess ADHD well. Whether you can diagnose independently depends on your registration, experience, scope of practice, supervision and your service’s governance. Most new assessors start with supervised assessments.
It’s a CPD-certified professional development course rather than an academic qualification. You get a certificate for 6 accredited CPD hours, which you can use for appraisal and revalidation.
Yes. It’s designed for registered clinicians who are new to formal ADHD assessment. Experienced assessors also use it to sharpen their approach to complex differentials and report writing.
Yes. As an accredited CPD course it qualifies for NHS study leave. Courses run on Saturdays, so many employers give a day off in lieu.
The next course is on Saturday 28 November 2026. Groups are kept small so everyone gets time to ask questions.
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