COUNSELING FOR ADD CHILD

You are suggested not to treat an attention deficit child with medicines alone without the support of therapy. A majority of long-term reliable studies stress the fact that medication alone for a long time isn’t better than when there’s totally no treatment. Medication for treating Attention Deficit Disorder – ADD is most fruitful when you combine it with counseling.

Family therapy-it helps

The family should adjust to the ADD child.

Parents should have the knowledge regarding what they can expect from their ADD child. The siblings should also be involved in the proceedings as siblings are the main focus of such family therapy in most of the cases.

Siblings of an ADD patient often become very jealous. The reason for such behavior lies in the fact that a lot of attention-good as well as bad is given by both the parents to the Attention Deficit Disorder - ADD child. Also, the ADD child gets a lot of advantages over his non-ADD sibling. Thus, you need to address sibling jealousy-the sooner you do it, the better it will be.

Training classes for parents are helpful

Most training classes for parents focus on making the Attention Deficit Disorder - ADD child obedient. It’s not a big problem if the ADD child is disobedient as being a space cadet he forgets what’s to be done. Often the ADD child refuses to do as ordered. These training classes impart skills to parents for handling such situations and to make their Attention Deficit Disorder - ADD kids more compliant.