ADHD: How should we treat it

Introduction

ADHD has developed tremendous public anxiety for conspicuous reasons. Perhaps the most conspicuous one may be the number of school age young kids influenced by the disorder. NIMH approximates that 2-5% or 2 million young young kids are diagnosed with ADHD. No one understands how numerous teenagers and mature persons are affected. (Wickelgren 6)Individuals with ADHD have adversity discovering and staying concentrated on one task. The disorder determinants some persons to be effortlessly diverted and or bored. Sounds, images and your thoughts shift continuously making it difficult to entire a lone task. At times a individual influenced by ADHD will not recognize that somebody is talking to them because they are so covered up in thought. (Stahr 201)

ADHD interferes with an individual's ability to regulate activity levels, creates behavioral problems and impedes the normal developmental process of learning. Parents, searching for answers to combat the disorder are driven by the fact that childhood is a limited period of time that is critical to the quality of development. (Smith 101) A child's future including the opportunity for success may be lost in the early years of life and therefore it is imperative that there is early diagnosis and treatment of the disorder. (Shapiro 555)

What is ADHD?

ADHD is a mental disorder. It is the most extensively studied disorder of children. You can find thousands of papers and scientific literature on the topic. Scientific study of the disorder refers to a family of related chronic neurobiological disorders. The origin of ADHD is unknown. (Salend 280)The implication suggests neurotransmitter deficits, genetics and perinatal complications. Studies conclude that ADHD runs in families, which suggest that the disorder may be inherited. (Rucklidge 530) Studies show that between 10 and 35 percent of children with ADHD have a close relative that had ADHD or is currently diagnosed with the disorder. One half of all parents who had ADHD have a child with the disorder. (Purdie 61)

ADHD is known to have two distinct symptoms and or characteristics: inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity that. Both problems do not always occur together however; each problem qualifies as a diagnosis of the disorder. The disorder may not be diagnosed until a child is in the early grades of elementary school.

Young children during preschool will often show symptoms of hyperactivity before the age of seven. The symptoms include excessive restlessness, squirming about with difficulty remaining seated, walking and running around. (Purdie 61)A child that is hyperactive will have problems playing quietly, and may have problems with talking too much. This may be view as bad and or inappropriate behavior. A child may act on impulse by not waiting and or interrupting when others are speaking.

Children that are not diagnosed with ADHD will likewise display these symptoms. There is however a difference in the frequency of the symptoms of a child with ADHD for example; a child with the disorder will display the symptoms at home and at school while playing demonstrating abnormal child behavior. These children are unpopular and consistently ...