The Pros And Cons Of Child Therapy

Jonathan is a 7-year-old child who is seemingly bright, according to school aptitude tests. He has since been showing signs of struggling academically, he is easily distracted and is also showing signs of increasing restlessness and agitation. Based on these initial findings and observable behaviors the child seems to be exhibiting a pattern typical with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, accompanied with resource delusion from the parents as well as permissive parenting.

The school has taken notice that the child is exhibiting certain behaviors, therefore, the procedure must be to look to see if these behaviors can be changed or possibly treated with medication if ultimately necessary. The first course of action would be to speak to

The child may benefit from therapy in their education to help in educating a bit better on how to complete tasks at a manageable level for the child. The child may also be placed into an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) or special needs class pertaining to the level of difficulty the child is having in the class, working on the material and completing the work that has been assigned. Another option would be cognitive as well as emotional therapy to assist in training to better manage the outcomes of becoming frustrated or angered at various tasks. Also, to remember that this is still a child and still growing and does not yet understand how to properly cope with emotions, such as anger and may have outbursts for no reason. The emotional therapy will work with not only the child, but the parents as well, so that both the child and the parents can benefit from this type of therapy – working closely and monitoring the emotional stability of the growing and developing child. The parent may want to keep a diary of the child’s behavior and / or progress and / or setbacks. Play therapy, music and meditation is also another outlet (Zipkin, 1985). Because the child exhibited a higher intelligence, the diagnosis was, from the teacher, initially missed; since those who have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and rate very high on the intelligence scale may not receive the attention needed to positively identify the specific markers. Since the child is still young, they will need to learn to cope with day-to-day living with this, and learn to manage not only anger, and frustration, but how to stay on task, how to complete a task as well as the task being on time. This will require a learned motivation from the parents as well as working with teachers and other outside forces, such as specialists, when