1Cademy - Psychosocial Interventions

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Psychosocial Interventions

There are two general categories in the psychosocial treatment for adolescents with ADHD--family based intervention and school-based interventions.
In family settings, behavior management training, problem-solving and communication training, and structural family therapy programs have all shown pre- to post-treatment improvement in several key areas.
The school-based interventions include behavioral strategies for teachers, counseling, and parents. Adolescents also receive instructions in study skills and basic social skills. These strategies showed moderate-to-large effect sizes in improvement on measures of academic and classroom functioning.
These results from psychosocial interventions suggest that external management of behavior contingencies is a key component in improving the functions of students with ADHD. However, it's hard to impose the same level of control on college students with ADHD as that imposed on adolescents due to their loss of family and teacher-provided contingency management.
However, leveraging contextual supports must remain an important theme in the intervention. College students with ADHD may need to learn how to generate external contingencies for themselves (e.g., a study group), rather than relying on parents or teachers to create these contingencies for them.

Updated 2022-03-12

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