Is ADHD easy to treat in children?

Many children have some common behaviors in their daily lives, and sometimes it is obviously found that the children have difficulty concentrating. This is most likely caused by ADHD. It is best to treat it as early as possible to minimize the physical and mental harm to the children. Let us learn about what methods should be used to effectively treat children with ADHD.

1. Behavior management and education

Teachers and parents need to carry out effective behavior management and psychological education based on the characteristics of the patients, avoid discrimination, corporal punishment or other rough educational methods, and appropriately use praise and encouragement to improve the patients' self-confidence and self-consciousness. When parents and school officials determine that the child's condition or behavior has affected the child's ability to participate in learning, the child can receive intervention treatment in school. The child's seat can be arranged near the teacher to reduce the child's distraction during class, and the course arrangement should take into account giving the patient sufficient time for activities.

2. Education and training for parents

It is suitable for patients with conduct disorders or other psychological problems, whose parents do not agree to drug treatment or whose parents' education methods are inappropriate. Education and training can be taken in the form of individual families or groups, and the main contents include: providing parents with a good supportive environment so that they can learn skills to solve family problems, learn to formulate clear reward and punishment agreements with their children, effectively avoid contradictions and conflicts with their children, master the correct use of positive reinforcement methods to encourage children's good behavior, and use punishment methods to eliminate children's bad behavior.

3. Psychotherapy

There are two main approaches: behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. The patient has poor relationships with peers, uses aggressive language and behavior toward others, and has poor self-control. Behavioral therapy utilizes the principle of operant conditioning to promptly provide positive or negative reinforcement to the patient's behavior, enabling the patient to learn appropriate social skills and replace inappropriate behavior patterns with new and effective behaviors. Cognitive behavioral therapy mainly addresses patients' impulsive problems, allowing patients to learn how to solve problems, identify whether their behavior is appropriate, and choose appropriate behavior.

Most children with ADHD have a certain connection with psychological factors. For children with ADHD, negative reinforcement should be given as much as possible psychologically, and children should be encouraged to participate in more social activities, or some training that can concentrate attention should be used to help children effectively overcome ADHD. At the same time, children's self-confidence should also be enhanced.