Children with ADD/ADHD often have trouble making friends. Typically, this is due to a lack of social skills and difficulty to relate to others in a meaningful way. As a parent, it can be hard to know that your child may not fit in with the rest of their peers because of their disorder. Feelings […]
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Perhaps the most helpful information for mothers to hear is that their child’s ADHD outbursts are a normal biological response to frustration and anger. By paying attention to certain cues your child exhibits, you can even view tantrums as a predictive science, charting them and preparing for them down to the second. Children from
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A recent New York Times article lifts the veil on what has become an open secret in many top-performing high schools in the nation: Prescription stimulants used to help children with ADHD are being sold on the black market to healthy students seeking a quick fix to increase focus, concentration and test performance. ADHD Drug
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Current research shows that boys with ADD/ADHD benefit from special attention from their fathers. But how does a father learn about and understand how he can best support his ADHD son? This article will provide information and suggestions for fathers (and father-figures) about how to be the kind of parental support your son needs most.
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Moon Dancers Shine Together! Moon dancers at the Sachs Center, is a unique art therapy group where girls similar in age come to meet with one another and engage in a safe therapeutic atmosphere and explore social situations. Our social skills group specializes in using the creative process to allow the girls to explore positive
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Often children, like adults, can benefit from therapy as children can also be experiencing emotional and behavioral problems. Child therapy focuses on helping children achieve social and emotional wellbeing. As individual therapy, it is also time-limited and it focuses on specific goals such as changes in behavior or in more general goals like increasing self-esteem.
Play therapy is a technique that uses a wide variety of treatment methods, all of which include the use of play. Play can indicate how children are coping with their problems or concerns and it can show how much children understand about what is happening around them or within themselves. The natural play of children
Adolescence is a time of change where children learn on how to make decisions and learn on how to embrace independence. Sometimes these changes of development can cause emotional, social and behavioral problems such as eating disorders and drugs and alcohol abuse. Adolescent therapy can be very useful in helping to understand and support the
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