Assignment on ADHD in Children

Running head: ADHD IN CHILDREN
ADHD in children
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Introduction
Many individuals of the society are found to be suffering from a variety of disorders.
Such disorders can be both physical and mental in nature. While most of the physical disorders
are curable in nature, it is comparatively harder to treat the mental disorders (Zhu et al., 2014).
This is due to the reason that the mental development of the individuals is something inherent
and it depends on variety of factors, each of which play an influential role in determining the
extent of this development. The extent of mental development of any individual of the society
gives a unique characteristic feature to such a concerned person. The manner in which they
interact with the other people of the society and the way in which they perform and execute their
actions in the personal and the professional sphere, are all dependent on the efficiency with
which they can comprehend their surrounding environment (National Collaborating Centre for
Mental Health, 2018). The purpose of this assignment is to understand the issue of ADHD in the
individuals of the society, particularly the children community. To this extent, various secondary
sources of literature have been analyzed and examined in order to understand the prevalence and
severity of this issue.
Body
ADHD refers to attention deficit hyperactive disorder which is one of the most
commonly prevailing childhood disorder among the human society. According to Pastor et al.
(2015), the symptoms of this disorder includes those if inattentiveness, hyperactivity and that of
impulsivity. However, the extent and severity of each of these symptoms vary from one
individual to the other. The children or the other individuals of the society who are diagnosed
with this disorder is seen to face the issues of sitting still for a long period of time, completing

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any task in an efficient manner in either the educational institutions or within their home
environment and face the difficulty in following directions (Ruiz-Goikoetxea et al., 2018).
According to Mautner, Granström and Leark (2015), there are no particular causes of
ADHD. This disorder is mainly tested to be existing in the families of the individual who are
diagnosed with it. As a result, it can be observed that there is a general understanding that the
disorder of ADHD occurs as a consequence of the genetic characteristics which are present
within the ancestors and parents of the individuals and passed on to them (Hodgson, Hutchinson
& Denson, 2014).
However, as argued by Hiscock et al. (2015), it can be seen that ADHD is also
considered to be existing because of several external factors such as the behavior of the parents
around the children. For instance, if a child is brought up in a household where there is
considerable hostility existing amongst the two parents, then the mental development of the child
gets affected adversely (Cuffe et al., 2015). They start to disassociate themselves from the world
in order to tackle with their pain and it is this disassociation which leads them to develop
attention deficiency and that of hyperactivity issues.
ADHD is known to create certain observable problems within the individuals so
diagnosed with. One of this issue is that of the problem of language development and
communication. Sciberras et al. (2014) sought to understand the issue of language problem
among the children who suffer from the attention deficit and hyperactive disorder. To this extent,
they compared the findings of the survey conducted on the ADHD children and the individuals
who do not suffer from this problem. This collected result was further related to the impact it has
on the language problems and the impact it has on the academic and social interaction of the
children diagnosed with ADHD. One hundred and seventy nine children of six to eight years