{"id":57,"date":"2011-12-22T21:33:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T21:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcitcharleston.com\/pcit\/?p=57"},"modified":"2011-12-22T22:55:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:55:44","slug":"managing-adhd-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcitcharleston.com\/pcit\/2011\/12\/22\/managing-adhd-behaviors\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing ADHD Behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcitcharleston.com\/pcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tantrum-girl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-82\" title=\"tantrum-girl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pcitcharleston.com\/pcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tantrum-girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcitcharleston.com\/pcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tantrum-girl.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pcitcharleston.com\/pcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tantrum-girl-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pcitcharleston.com\/pcit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tantrum-girl-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Managing ADHD Behaviors with Child Directed Interaction Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Young children with ADHD tend to be impulsive, hyperactive and inattentive. These symptoms can seem like misbehavior-but they are just the symptoms of ADHD.\u00a0 Children with ADHD do not like the symptoms any more than anyone else does. It helps to remember that THEY do not have ADHD on purpose.\u00a0 Sometimes it is even harder for them to understand they don\u2019t do ADHD behaviors on purpose.\u00a0 The lists below describe the behaviors that ARE the symptoms of ADHD. If your child has ADHD, these behaviors will seem very familiar to you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>IMPULSIVE BEHAVIORS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Interrupting your conversation<\/li>\n<li>Grabbing toys out of your hands<\/li>\n<li>Answering before you finish your question<\/li>\n<li>Not waiting their turn<\/li>\n<li>Having trouble waiting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>HYPERACTIVE BEHAVIORS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Running around the room<\/li>\n<li>Becoming very \u2018wound up\u2019 during play time<\/li>\n<li>Playing roughly with toys<\/li>\n<li>Dropping things<\/li>\n<li>Bouncing and Fidgeting<\/li>\n<li>Talking too loudly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>INATTENTIVE BEHAVIORS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Daydreaming when they should be listening<\/li>\n<li>Paying attention to something else when they should be listening<\/li>\n<li>Making noises when they should be quiet<\/li>\n<li>Not finishing what they start<\/li>\n<li>Forgetting what they were saying or doing<\/li>\n<li>Changing activities quickly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many people find these behaviors annoying or irritating, so parents often want to do something to stop them from happening.\u00a0 However, punishing your child usually does not work. It often just upsets everybody more.\u00a0 <strong>WHAT CAN YOU DO?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">IT\u2019S ALL ABOUT ATTENTION<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong><\/strong>Attention is tricky because it does not matter if a particular behavior (symptom) gets negative attention or positive attention.\u00a0 Both kids of attention cause the symptom to happen more often.\u00a0 <strong>THE ONLY WAY NOT TO GIVE ATTENTION TO SOMETHING IS TO IGNORE IT TOTALLY.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>ACTIVE IGNORING<\/strong> is the name of a discipline technique that is often the best way to deal with ADHD behaviors.\u00a0 If you actively ignore these behaviors, every single time they happen, you can decrease how often they occur.\u00a0 <strong>ACTIVE ignoring is not easy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One reason that ignoring is so hard is that when you ignore something that used to work well at getting your attention, things will get worse at first.\u00a0 It is a law of nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If children lose the attention they normally get when they \u201cdo\u201d some ADHD behavior, the logical way to get back your attention is to do the same thing that always worked before, but to do it more intensely.\u00a0 Losing your attention is like a powerful punishment.\u00a0 This is the time to let your child know how they can get the attention they need, with opposite positive behavior!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>HOW TO IGNORE ADHD BEHAVIORS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Avoid any reaction to your child\u2019s ADHD behavior (don\u2019t look, frown or say anything related to the behavior)-act as though it is not happening.<\/li>\n<li>Once you begin to ignore some behavior, you must continue to ignore it until it stops<\/li>\n<li>As soon as the behavior stops, immediately give attention to some other, positive behavior and try to give attention to a positive opposite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>HOW TO PAY ATTENTION TO POSITIVE OPPOSITES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>As soon as an ADHD behavior stops, look at the child with a friendly look and comment on what the child is doing that is the opposite of the ADHD behavior.<\/li>\n<li>Any time you see behavior that is opposite to the ADHD behaviors give the child BIG labeled praises!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Adapted from Eyberg, S.M., Calzada, E., Brinkmeyer, M., Querido, J., &amp; Funderbunk, B. W., (2003).\u00a0 In L. FandeCreek &amp; T.&gt;. Jackson (Eds).\u00a0 <em>Innovations in Clinical practice: Focus on Children and adolescents<\/em> (pp. 171-172_. Sarasota, FL: Professional Resource Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing ADHD Behaviors with Child Directed Interaction Skills Young children with ADHD tend to be impulsive, hyperactive and inattentive. These symptoms can seem like misbehavior-but they are just the symptoms of ADHD.\u00a0 Children with ADHD do not like the symptoms any more than anyone else does. 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