| ADHD and therapy is now regarded by all the | | | | actually concentrate better and get better results. |
| experts as an essential and integral part of any | | | | Just by getting them to sit on a stability ball or |
| ADHD treatment regime. Behavior therapy and | | | | exercise ball while doing homework can be a |
| some form of medication has received blessing | | | | great help. Making them sit still at all costs may |
| from the highest medical authorities in the land so | | | | actually be counterproductive. |
| we know we are on safe ground here. | | | | Why medication is just not enough. |
| This therapy goes by various names and they | | | | Medication or pills will not teach skills and that is |
| include cognitive therapy, behavior modification | | | | what ADHD and therapy is all about. For example, |
| and just simply ADHD and therapy. Basically it | | | | they will need some skills to help them remember |
| teaches the child and the parents to learn and | | | | things, to focus and to organize simple daily tasks. |
| apply certain skills which will help them cope with | | | | These are external things and medication cannot |
| inappropriate behavior. It teaches both parties | | | | help although it may be able to relieve some of |
| skills to deal with life at school and in the home | | | | the symptoms. But we are looking at the long |
| and also social relationships. | | | | term and the skills learnt early on will assist the |
| What skills are we thinking of here? I think the | | | | child right into adulthood. We should also |
| greatest problem ADHD kids have is in controlling | | | | remember that after only three years on |
| their impulsivity especially if they have been | | | | psychostimulant medication, the effects can begin |
| diagnosed with the ADHD Hyperactivity | | | | to wear off. If no therapy for ADHD at all has |
| Impulsivity type or indeed the Combined type. | | | | been done, the child is abandoned to his own fate. |
| Just teaching the child to stop and think will be so | | | | So, there you have it. We can implement ADHD |
| important. It seems banal to us but the ADHD | | | | and therapy and there are some really excellent |
| child just not have the right mix of brain chemicals | | | | programs which can teach us such a lot and we |
| to enable him to do that and does crazy | | | | can begin to relax as parents. But medication may |
| dangerous things as he is incapable of thinking of | | | | be an issue still. Given the nasty side effects and |
| the consequences. | | | | risks of the amphetamine drugs, we should now |
| As regards sitting still, this is a two edged sword. | | | | look at alternative therapy for ADHD such as |
| Research actually shows that when children are | | | | ADHD homeopathic remedies. |
| allowed some movement when on task, they can | | | | |