Behavioral Treatment for ADHD

involves adjusting the environment to promote more successful social interactions.
Such adjustments include creating more structure and encouraging routines.

Children with ADHD may need help in organizing their lives. Therefore, some simple interventions to try for childhood ADHD include:

Create a schedule. >>> Make sure your child has the same routine every day.

The schedule should include homework time and playtime.

Post this schedule in a prominent place in the home.

Making simple house rules and making sure that your directions are well understood also helps an ADHD child. When you make simple house rules, you should let your child realize the reason behind it as well as the consequences once broken. In a way, this is also a great way to instill discipline. If you are giving directions to your child, make sure that you maintain eye contact and make them understand in a clear and calm voice what you want. You might want to keep instructions short and simple and let the child repeat the instructions back to you to see if they really understood.

Help your child organize everyday items >>> Work with your child to have a place for everything.

Create a Point or Reward >>> Note that children with ADHD need consistent rules that they can easily follow. When your child follows rules, they should be rewarded.

**Reward-based incentives tend to be the most effective, and a point system which sets up the value or expectation for each step is very concrete.

Congratulating and rewarding an ADD child because of good behavior and also for completion of task makes the child feel special and would want to do the deed again. It is also very important for you to make sure that your child has adult supervision all the time. Since children with ADHD are highly impulsive, they may do some things that may cause harm without even realizing it.

Children with ADHD usually have challenges when it comes to socialization. For you to be able to help them improve their social skills, you have to watch and learn how they interact with friends and other people and reward them for good behavior. It does not have to be a material reward, giving praise and recognition often times work better than material rewards. Lastly, most ADHD child results to having learning disability and we have to make sure that we focus on the effort and not grades.

You could however give rewards for getting better grades for motivation as well as it is important for you to set homework routine. Work hand in hand with their teacher and get to know their progress. ADHD is a condition that can be beaten with a help of a loving parent.



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