The most important thing about behavioral treatment is adjustment, you need to adjust the enviornment to where you promote more successful social interactions. One good adjustment is more structure and encouraging routines this allows the child with ADHD to gain more of an understanding on social interactions on their own. A few things that can help a lot in organizing the life of an ADHD child is to creating a schedule and helping them organize everyday items. The schedule should be consistent from day to day and should include play time and homework time. And the things that you can help them organize should be items like backpacks, clothes, school supplies, and certain toys like cars or dinosaurs.
Most of the time behavioral treatment for adults is diffrent. They should be treated in ways such as individual cognitive and behavioral therapy to enhance self-esteem, relaxation training and stress management to reduce anxiety and stress , and other tactics that help them to understand how to organize at home and at work along with how to stay on task and so fourth. All of these things are beneficial when under going behavioral treatment and should be put into consideration.
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Chakraburtty, Amal, ed. "ADD & ADHD Health Center." Web MD. 26 June 2007. Web MD. 20 Apr. 2008
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Chakraburtty, Amal, ed. "ADD & ADHD Health Center." Web MD. 26 June 2007. Web MD. 20 Apr. 2008 .
3 comments:
It's crazy that our topics are completely different disorders but they use the same type of treatments...
that treatment seems quite logical
I think the treatment sounds good, helping the children to adjust.
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