In the absence of these management strategies, the behavior of children with ADHD quickly regresses. Creating the best educational climate for your child requires first creating a working alliance with your child's educational team. Fortunately, educators are becoming increasingly aware of ADHD and have many more resources available to them. Such an individual might work with your child on a regular basis or be consulted as needed. The family climate.
Successful treatment requires a stable, consistent environment.
As you are your child's case manager and treatment provider, it is important that your mental health be stable and that other family issues and problems be attended to. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that even the best of ADHD treatments fail when placed within chaotic or non-supportive home and educational settings. I frequently remind parents and their children that it is more often the case that our strengths and assets, rather than our weaknesses and liabilities, best predict what happens to us in life. Therefore, in a balanced, strength-based model, it is equally important to identify and build upon your child's intellectual, artistic, athletic, and other strengths. As Dr. Bob Brooks so eloquently reminds us, if one has a bigger sea of dysfunction to swim through then one must possess larger islands of competence to rest upon.