| the tide is turning. The American Academy of | | | | effective than the drugs which have harmful side |
| Pediatrics is now advising its members, doctors and | | | | effects and represent a risk for some children. He |
| parents that a child who has mild ADHD behavior | | | | wants to work with ADHD teenagers in teaching them |
| problems should first be treated with behaviour | | | | to drive and also to involve fathers more in seeking |
| therapy rather putting him on ADHD meds straight | | | | parenting advice and being more involved in parenting |
| away. They are also recommending that when the | | | | ADHD kids. |
| medications fail, as they often do, then behavioral | | | | Notice that here has not been much hype about this |
| intervention is much more preferable than finding other | | | | and understandably so. The drug companies will not be |
| drugs which might or might not be suitable for the poor | | | | rushing to offer Dr. Fabiano lucrative contracts and |
| child. Now this is sound parenting advice but it has | | | | they may even launch a counter offensive by backing |
| taken a very long time to surface. | | | | other research which will probably claim the opposite. |
| More good news has come from the White House! | | | | If behaviour therapy were to be adopted by the |
| Gregory Fabiano has won an award for his research | | | | majority of doctors and pediatricians, then it would be |
| into ADHD in which he advocates that behavioral | | | | a great blow to the drugs industry. I do not think this will |
| interventions are much more effective in changing | | | | happen but there is definitely a swing away from the |
| ADHD behavior than the conventional medications. Dr. | | | | hyped up drugs and parents are seeking valid |
| Fabiano will now be working with teachers, parents | | | | alternatives in trying to improve ADHD behavior |
| and pediatricians to demonstrate that behavior therapy | | | | problems. They now have more than prestigious |
| has a positive effect on ADHD behavior. He goes | | | | backing and honest scientific research to give them |
| even further in stating that his research shows that in | | | | that support. |
| some cases, ADHD behavior therapy is even more | | | | |