Drug Free Options
Alternative Approaches
- Sight & Hearing
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech Therapy
- Exercise
- Diet
- Education & Learning Styles
- Neuro-biofeedback
- Trauma Counselling
- Social Skills Training
- Parenting Skills & Family Counselling
- Meditation & Relaxation Techniques
- Toxins & Auditory Processing
- Other Treatments
Social Skills Training
Proponents claim social skills training helps a child with impulse control or behavioural problems be less aggressive and impulsive, manage anger, and behave in a more socially acceptable way. Techniques include coaching, role playing, watching videotapes of good behaviour and practicing ways to settle conflicts.
Social skills training uses specific steps and goals, such as learning how to listen and engage in conversation, enter new group situations, give and receive praise and criticism and cope with frustration.
More information is available at: www.psychology.murdoch.edu.au
Theraplay
Children who suffer from the symptoms of AD(H)D often find it very difficult to calm down after an upset. It may take them hours or even days. Little things set them off, and they readily become angry or emotional with no idea how to soothe themselves. This also makes it difficult for parents, other family members and teachers to live with them. The process of emotional regulation is learned early in infancy, but for a variety of reasons some children have missed out on this crucial piece of learning.
Using a series of physical, personal and fun activities, done with the parents and therapist, Theraplay replicates those early learning experiences and thus helps develop the necessary brain linkages. These interactional activities thus tap into that part of the brain responsible for regulating emotions to help reduce many of the symptoms of AD(H)D.
More information is available at www.theraplay.org.
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