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Causes of ADHD or attention
hyperactive deficit disorder are not able to
be put down to any one thing. So many
families feel singled out or to blame in
dealing with the uncontrollable behavioral
outbursts of children and teenagers If your
child is misbehaving or finds it difficult
to settle down and concentrate or is showing
some unpredictable or unmanageable
behaviours, you may find it difficult to
cope with outside pressure from
schools or friends or family to go
for a diagnosis of ADHD.
There are a number of symptoms that
young people and adults can show when they
are affected by this condition. ADHD may
also be referred to as hyperkinetic disorder. Some of the symptoms may include behavioural problems and
the inability to concentrate on the
task at hand. It is difficult for people
with this condition to sit still or to
control their behaviour. As such they are
unable to learn and consequently
to their full potential and this can
also hold them back in making friends and
having relationships.
No-one knows for certain what causes
ADHD as there is a lot of linking factors
such as perhaps the father showed signs of
ADHD as a child or maybe there are certain
additives that trigger off these undesirable
behaviours – no one really knows for
certain.
When we step outside the box of what we are
told about these conditions and honour the
fact the children may themselves be showing
us a special insight into how the
conventional organisations are seing and
treating ADHD - we can see a way forwards.
From a medical point of view there is
a school of thought that goes along the
lines of this problem
being
attributed to areas of the brain that
require full attention not being
sufficiently developed which results in the
person concerned being very easily
distracted by other things either going
internally in their minds or externally,
happening around them.
What is evident however, is that
the brain cycles – the timing of
brainwaves per second seem to be much higher
in children with this condition. It’s a
little bit like they have their foot on the
accelerator of the car when stuck in a
traffic jam.
I have had tremendous success with
working with young people and supporting the
families of those who have ADHD. This is
through working with the Holistic
Educational Therapy programme or HET which
has proved a huge success in the UK with
working with these problems.
The results have placed this
programme high on the list of successful
approaches after many years of being tested
and evaluated in the British education
system with over an 85% success rate.
The success of this approach is in
part due to the fact that it looks at the
individual in terms of behaviour and through
various consultation and observation methods
supports you through emotional upsets and
reactions to stresses, then diet, support of
what to eat and what not to eat as well as
looking at certain types of nutritional
supplements that are known to be beneficial
in these cases. This is followed on by a
stage by stage approach which looks at core
issues that may associate certain behaviours
to certain incidents or traumas in life and
then how to break negative patterns in a
safe and client focused way. We then look at
natural approaches that gently soothe the
senses, which are some times overly reactive
to certain situations.
All of these approaches are not only tried and tested and
proven to be effective but are so safe and
so simple that the worst thing they can do
is not work but we know through experience
that it does work in over 85% of cases. In every case the approach is
unique and tailor made to suit the needs of
the person concerned as well as to support
other members of the family through dealing
with some of these problems.
The HET programme is suitable for
those who are on medication as well as those
who would prefer to avoid the side effects
of conventional
medication for ADHD which can have
unpleasant side effects.
Advice on where to go from here and
what strategies could be helpful as well as
put you in touch with a therapist s
available from the founder of this programme
based in the UK.
Linda
Porter ( BA., Cert.Ed.,MIPTI, MFSHG,
BFRP,MACTA, Dip.Phy. ASSOCIAT reg.) who is a
specialist in behaviours / psychology /
Education and
complementary therapies
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