This is one of the most frequent violations of the brain function in children, and in about 60% it is preserved in adulthood. Syndrome of violation of attention with hyperactivity in adults often remains undiagnosed. Meanwhile, it is important to recognize this syndrome, since it has its effective, inexpensive and safe treatment.
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Active or hyperactive children?
Not
follows any excited child to refer to the category of children with
Syndrome disorder with hyperactivity. If your baby is full
Energies, if it beats through the edge, why the kid sometimes becomes
stubborn and disobedient - this does not mean that he is hyperactive. If you
squeezed with their girlfriend, and the child begins to be angry, can not
resist the place to stop at the table - this is normal. Tear children I
Long journeys.
From every child from time to time
Minutes of amphibes occur. And how many children start «clear up»
in bed when it's time to sleep, or indulge in the store! That child
becomes like a clockwork, giving a yield of boredom, not at all signs
hyperactivity.
Noisy baby-dancer or kid who
no light, nor dawn, full of strength and energy is joy, not
Reason for concern.
And finally, a child who has motivated deviations in behavior, also does not refer to the discharge of hyperactive.
Signs of hyperactivity
Diagnostic criteria for hyperactivity disorder
over the years changed. Symptoms almost always appear up to 7 years, usually in
4 years. Middle age when contacting the doctor - 8-10 years: in this
the age of study and work on the house begin to demand from the child
independence, purposefulness and concentration. Children more
An early age is usually diagnosed with the first handling, but waiting
several months during which symptoms should persist. This is
Allows you to avoid diagnostic errors: so, the transient violation
attention can be a reaction, for example, on a quarrel or parental divorce.
Basic signs
- Violation of attention, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness. In action
from the presence or absence of specific signs of disrupting syndrome
attention with hyperactivity is divided into three subtypes: attention deficit,
Hyperactivity, mixed.
To diagnose violation syndrome
attention with hyperactivity requires six of nine
Symptoms of the following categories. Signs should be present in
For at least six months
Launch of attention:
Reduced selective attention is unable to focus on the subject, the items of the subject, makes the negligent errors.
- Can't save attention: the child cannot perform the task to the end, is unsalted when it is executed.
- The impression that does not listen when they are directly referred to.
- Does not fulfill direct instructions or cannot finish them.
- He has difficulty with the organization of its activities, often switched from one classes to another.
- Avoids or does not like tasks requiring long mental tension.
- Often loses things in which he needs.
- Easy distracted by an extraneous noise.
- Increased forgetfulness in daily activities.
Hyperactivity and impulsion:
- With excitement of intecivary movements with hands or legs or boosters in a chair.
- Must often get off.
- Sharp lifts from place and excessive run.
- Difficulty to participate in quiet leisure activities.
- Acts as if «routine».
- Shouts and other noisy tricks during classes and t.D..
- Says the answers before the issues were completed.
- Inability to wait for its turn in games during classes and t.D..
- Interferes with the conversation or activities of others.
Causes of hyperactivity
Previously
The reason for the syndrome of violation of attention with hyperactivity was considered
intrauterine or perinatal brain damage. Now
Data on genetic predisposition to disorder syndrome
attention with hyperactivity. twenty—30% of patients' parents suffer or
suffered by syndrome violations with hyperactivity. Besides
parents more often than among the population as a whole are alcoholism,
Asocial psychopathy and affective disorders; The receptions of the same
parents frequency of these diseases ordinary. Hypothesis that cause
attention violation syndrome with hyperactivity is food
Allergies, in controlled tests were not confirmed. In some
Cases The cause of the disease may be disorders of the intrauterine
Development. It is also believed that the development of attention disorder syndrome
Hyperactivity can be facilitated by the Ray Syndrome,
fetal alcoholic syndrome, lead poisoning, but these
assumptions have not yet been confirmed.
Prevalence and forecast
Syndrome
Warning violations with hyperactivity is more common in boys.
Relative prevalence among boys and girls - 4: 1. IN
Currently, schoolchildren of primary grades prevalence
The syndrome takes equal to 3—10%.
More than half of children,
suffering from the syndrome of violation of attention with hyperactivity in the initial
classes, this syndrome is preserved in adolescence. Such
Teens are prone to addiction, hardly adapt to the team. IN
Approximately 60% of cases of symptoms pass into mature age.
Long observations of patients and retrospective studies
showed that hyperactivity in adolescence in many
decreases even if other disorders remain. In people who suffered in
childhood by severe forms of syndrome violation of attention with
hyperactivity, in adolescent and mature age is high
Social dezadaption.
As noted above, disrupting syndrome
attention with hyperactivity (usually in combination with behavioral
disorders) may be a harbinger of a number of violations
Personality, above all asocial behavior (theft, alcoholism,
Drug use, indiscriminate sex). Children without
hyperactivity less aggressive and hostile to others. They have,
Apparently, more often there are partial delays in development, including -
School skills.
Treatment of attention violation syndrome with hyperactivity
Educational work. Parents
and the child (in understandable form) necessarily clarify the meaning
Upcoming treatment. As a rule, parents do not understand what is happening
with their child, but his behavior is annoying. Explaining everything «Incorrect education», they start blaming themselves and friend
friend. These accusations are even more strengthened after communicating with
a low-informed doctor who does not know about hereditary nature
Disorder Syndrome with Hyperactivity and Relative Disease
Child entirely on parents' errors.
Almost always parents are not
know what to do with the child, and disagreements about this lead to
new conflict. It is necessary to explain to them the causes of the child's behavior.
It is largely due to the congenital features of the psyche (this is
particular, violations of attention), to change which parents cannot. But
Some symptoms (disobedience, a sense of contradiction) arise or
amplified precisely as a result of improper education, and eliminate
Their parents must. Thus, the tasks of the educational work here
the same as with mental retardation: to help parents understand
the behavior of the child, dispel the illusions, explain what can actually
Hope and how to behave with the child. It is necessary to discuss common and
Private education issues, introduce parents with methods
Remuneration, behavioral psychotherapy and t.NS. The effectiveness of these
methods in the syndrome of violation of attention with hyperactivity to the end
clarified, but, as recent studies have shown, use them
expedient.
Conditions of education. If
Child is difficult to study in the usual class, it is transferred to
Specialized class. As already mentioned, the reasons for bad progress
Children with hyperactivity disorder syndrome —
Inattention and absence of perseverance (the main signs of the syndrome),
Sometimes in combination with partial delays in the development of school skills.
Symptoms can be reduced by medication, but
Preparations for the treatment of delays in development. Then the child can
help only learning in special conditions corresponding to it
opportunities. In the case of partial delays in the development of school skills
This may be a correction class, in the case of low performance when
Normal intelligence and absence of development delays - class for
catching up. Unfortunately, opportunities for specialized learning
There are currently limited children.
Medicia treatment
Syndrome disorder with hyperactivity effectively about
75—80% of cases. However, his action, although pronounced, yet
Symptomatic. Therefore, drug treatment in children spend
years, if necessary, continuing him in youth and
Adults. The fact that drug treatment does not allow to heal by syndrome
violations of attention with hyperactivity should not diminish his roles: yes
Many other chronic psychiatric and somatic
Diseases in which only long-term therapy is effective.
Suppression
Symptoms facilitates both intellectual and social development
child. Treatment in most cases is already completing in adolescence
Age.
