Thursday, July 30, 2009

How to help children with ADHD


ADHD is a concentrated attention difficulties, hyperactivity and impulsive behavior as the main symptoms of mental illness syndrome. Age at onset of the disease more than 2 to 18 years old, more boys than girls.
With the performance of ADHD children with age, the environment and in people's attitudes around varies, generally expressed as:
1, the activities of over-the majority of patients with ADHD from childhood hyperactivity was excited, can not sit-ins. To enter the school, due to various restrictions, ADHD symptoms were more obvious, can not be quiet in the classroom lectures, they turned a rocking chair, walking around in his seat, shouting, or speech, teasing others, the impact of classroom discipline. Run around after school, like over things, frequently interrupted the adults talk and interference with the activities of adults, do not cherish books and toys.
2, the attention focused on the difficulties children with ADHD it is difficult to focus on certain things, especially in the classroom can not concentrate on listening, paying attention to lax, susceptible to environmental interference and distraction, look around in the classroom, staring absent-minded or a trance . Assignments for teachers not remember, when the careless homework, doing fun, free alterations, drag-and-drop operation, it is difficult to be completed on time.
3, headstrong impulsive, emotionally unstable as a result of poor self-control, because children are often a little too small on the emotional response generated easily angered or emotional impulse, bad temper, therefore, often stimulated by a small risk of action and destruction, often quarrel or fight with fellow students, or for no reason in the classroom, such as call and ask.
Performance of the above children, parents should note that the opinion of experts to diagnose and treatment. Have children with ADHD, parents can take a number of ways to help children:
Drug treatment only when a more serious impact on ADHD children's learning, interfere with the order of the family and the school only when the need for drug treatment. Medication must be prescribed. Commonly used drugs amphetamine, methylphenidate and pemoline.
2 by changing the environment for the treatment of parents, teachers and the community to improve the patient's attitude towards the environment, to achieve therapeutic effect. This includes the following:
(1) the nature of specific diseases, the right to be treated. Parents should be aware that ADHD is a disease, should seek to understand the causes of, and actively seek treatment, rather than gross, discrimination, indifference, abuse, punishment and other measures, this disease will not only increase and will increase the children's low self-esteem, anxiety, withdrawal or psychological resistance.
(2) the gradual correction of behavior and hyperactivity. Should be to gradually reduce the child's behavior and hyperactivity, and not to set goals high, immediately ask them to become good boy quiet. Excessive demands can only lead to tension between.
(3) to allow children to participate in a variety of sports, social activities, so that they can have a chance to vent excess energy.
(4) to encourage the quiet child behavior, using verbal praise, encouraging the progressive training methods, such as to strengthen them develop to sit-ins, to focus the attention of the habit of learning and work.
(5) to cultivate children to form good habits. Should allow them to develop a time schedule from an early age, personal habits to ensure adequate sleep time, and the life of regular training as one of their choice to form the good habit of using, for example, do not eat, such as watching television. Do not give way to some interest in children, for example, so that they can not indefinitely long period of time such as watching television or movies.
(6) the elimination of the family led to the adverse attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or mental stress factors to stimulate and coordinate family relationships, to ease the family atmosphere, family factors to prevent the children feel uneasy, nervous anxiety and excitement.
(7) the rules simple and clear. Children of such elements required is to prevent injury to their own reckless acts or crimes against other people, therefore, the rules set out to achieve this goal line, not be appropriate to enact the rules too much.
(8) appropriate treatment. Parents can not discrimination, abuse or beat them, nor can the "disease" as an excuse for too much and made them even more self-willed and aggressive; it is necessary to be patient education, but also demanding. Parents and school teachers should take the initiative in maintaining regular contact, mutual feedback, and jointly promote the improvement of children.
3 psychological treatment of parents would like to invite experts on child psychotherapy and behavior therapy.

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