WAFAB
Women / AFAB ADHD Framework

Description

Assessment Tool · Forthcoming March 2026
Published by NPI Press

Description

WAFAB is a structured clinical framework designed to support the identification and formulation of ADHD in women and AFAB adults whose presentations are internalised, masked, hormonally modulated, or context-dependent.

Developed to address the limitations of existing symptom-centric tools, WAFAB guides clinicians through domains frequently overlooked in standard ADHD assessment, including executive variability, emotional overcontrol, relational labour, masking patterns, developmental adaptation, and life-stage-specific unmasking.

The framework is intended to support diagnostic reasoning, differential formulation, and ethical interpretation alongside formal assessment measures. WAFAB supports diagnostic reasoning and formulation by making visible patterns that are often obscured by symptom-led assessment alone.

Use Parameters

• For use by licensed or regulated clinicians only
• Designed to complement formal ADHD assessment
• Supports formulation, not score-based diagnosis

Intended Users

• Psychologists and psychological assessors
• Psychiatrists and prescribing clinicians
• Regulated mental health professionals conducting adult ADHD evaluations