Child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Importance of Family Involvement

Running head: CHILD WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTVITY DISORDER 1
CHILD WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
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CHILD WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER 2
Child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Importance of Family Involvement
The behavior of children with ADHD has detrimental impacts on relationships with
family members as well as their social functioning. Consequently, medical practitioners and
professional educators have introduced clinical approaches in the treatment of the condition. In
the recent past, however, they have advocated for implementation of new strategies that focus on
family involvement and behavior. Parents highly influence a child’s physical and emotional
health since they have control over factors that can either positively or negatively affect the
symptoms of a child’s disorder. For instance, by maintaining a positive attitude both parents and
siblings can easily connect with the affected child, thus, helping him to be focused and to feel
loved (Power, Mautone, Soffer, Clarke, Marshall, Sharman, Jawad, 2012). This positively
impacts on the child with ADHD enabling him to better assimilate in the environment and to
interact with others. One of major deficit of a child with ADHD is executive function, which
refers to the ability to plan ahead, think, organize, complete tasks, and control impulses. In this
regard, affected parents and siblings can provide the necessary guidance until the time when the
child acquires the requisite executive skills.
Possible Challenges Parents Might Face in Managing the Behaviors of a Child with ADHD
Parents with children suffering ADHD are faced with greater educational and behavioral
developmental disturbances. This leads to an increased demand in energy, time, and logistics,
which often lead to heightened marital stress and financial burden when treating ADHD. When
this occurs, there are several consequences including poor parent-child relationship, increased
inconsistent discipline in the child with ADHD, decreased parental monitoring of potentially
perilous behaviors in the child, and increased aggression in the child (Kendall, Taylor, E., Perez,