Severe ADHD- Finding The Right Option To Raise A Happier, Calmer And Well Behaved Child
Sometimes with severe ADHD, neither medication nor any therapeutic treatment seems to work
. I know parents who have tried everything and then just stopped all treatment. They just gave up but life became unbearable for them. They had tried all the treatments for a period of three years. With or without treatment,the child with severe ADHD was totally unmanageable in any setting, yelled rather than talked and oscillated from being aggressive, defiant to being downright violent.I know of one child who was diagnosed at the very early age of three. This is an interesting aspect of ADHD diagnosis because the DSM forthcoming new edition is going to reset the age for diagnosis at ideally between the ages of 7 and 12. Now that is a big difference and it has been decided because there have been too many early diagnoses and also ignorance that ADHD can be discovered as late as twelve years of age.
But let us return to the question of severe ADHD because many parents despair of ever getting it right and they worry that their ADHD child, if not treated properly, will grow up and be at risk of drug addiction, drinking and felonies. Now, of course, is the time to act.
As regards medication with psychostimulants, there are those in favour and those who are totally against. The medications may help to calm hyperactivity and calm things down but they will never solve the behavior problem and that is an enormous problem for many families. If you have pneumonia and I give you a cold remedy, then that is not much use. In a way, the psychostimulants for ADHD are rather like that. In addition, as the ADHD expert Dr. William Pelham, has found, the effects of the meds tend to wane and then parents are back to square one and the awful aggressive and defiant behavior is still there.
This is where child behavior modification steps in and its efficacy is widely recognized by many medical authorities and even government bodies worldwide. The UK government sponsors courses for parents who need to learn some parenting strategies which is basically what this therapy is all about.
Whatever medication option you go for in treating severe ADHD, if you do not have a child behavior modification plan, you are going nowhere at all. Here parents learn how to respond to yelling and violence in the home. They learn how to set up routines and structures and explain the family rules which everyone is signed up to. Behavior charts with rewards and points gained are prominently displayed and everybody knows the routine.
If your child has severe ADHD, this is really worth looking into as indeed is a homeopathic remedy which will help to restore body mind harmony in a very gentle way. That will give you the time and energy to get the child behavior modification techniques going with a calmer happier child. Why wait?
Severe ADHD- Finding The Right Option To Raise A Happier, Calmer And Well Behaved Child
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