Will ADHD Meds Help Aggression at School?

"My daughter is 10, and takes coimprimine and Adderall. She is having trouble at school — she hits and bites her teachers. What medication will control her behavior?"

Dr. Larry Silver specializes in treating children with attention deficit disorder (ADHD).

You describe a complex set of problems that are not yet being addressed. Since medication is involved, I would encourage you to seek a consultation with a child and adolescent psychiatrist to figure out what is going on and how best to address the problems. Do not do nothing. Your child needs help.

Larry Silver, M.D., is the author of Dr. Larry Silver's Advice to Parents on AD/HD and The Misunderstood Child: Understanding and Coping with Your Child's Learning Disabilities. He is also a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

1 Comments:

Posted by edward jonathans - May 19 2009 @ 12:11 PM
reducing aggressive behavior - non pharmalogical approach
Try finding an Interactive Metronome [IM] practitioner near your home. Clinical research studies [available on their site] IM have shown IM to reduce aggressive/impulsive behaviors by retraining the Executve Functions [planning, processing, execution] of the Pre Frontal Cortex. I witnessed last summer while training an 11 y/o male dX'd w/ ASD. In the early stages of IM training he'd reach over and hit me because he didn't like what he was being asked to do. I'd gently remind him hitting is NEVER ok and that we'd have to stop our session if it continued, which was a deterent since his reward after each IM training session was 20 minutes of xBox gaming. Mom later reported that he'd stopped hitting his younger brother at home. Now he'd hold him with one arm, and with the other fist raised, would ask her if it'd be OK to slug him ;-P... of course she'd remind him of the negative consequences and then it was over. The other big win was that he also stopped bed wetting. Go to interactivemetronome.com and select Search for Provider... /edj im@bragbox.com

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