The treatment of ADHD

The treatment for ADHD is not just one set form of treatment it varies depending on the individual and the family of that individual. To help families decide how their child should be treated the National Institute for Mental Health conducted many studies to and funded many studies to evaluate the treatment of ADHD. The largest study conducted in evaluating the treatment was the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA). They studied children on the elementary age level, and they conducted four diffrent types of treatment. The four diffrent groups were medication only, therapy only, a combination of the two, and the final group under went only routine community care all of this was over a span of fourteen months. All of them were montitered deffrently such as being seen monthly for an hour and a half to be montiterd (medicine and therapy) or seen whenever the parents took them in (routine community care). A major help to the study was the help of parents and teachers with the kids who took medicine, therapy, or both. Really the only way to know what kind of treatment that your child would need is to experiment. Some children may have bad side effects to medicine so that therapy is a better option for them but it is diffrent for each child you just have to know your child and talk to your physician and work out a plan for your child based on their specific condition.

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"The Treatment of ADHD." National Institute of Mental Health. 08 Apr. 2008. National Institutes of Health. 20 Apr. 2008 .