Given past work, we hypothesized that both EF ratings and EF tasks would uniquely predict ADHD symptoms among adults. However, we also predicted that EF ratings would be particularly important in explaining the variance in ADHD-related impairments. (Kamradt)
The results of this study demonstrated neuropsychological tasks measuring arousal/activation and response inhibition as well as ratings of EF contribute additively in prediction of ADHD symptoms and related impairment among adults.
What can parents do? Parents can be there as a firm reinforcement to the treatment provided.
Functional impairments and behavior problems associated with ADHD, such as low school grades and defiance of authority, are affected by situational and contextual factors in childhood, including the behavior management skills of adults in the child’s environment. In general, behavioral parent training (BPT) is effective at improving the child management skills of parents and the behavior of children with ADHD …show more content…
Parents use monitoring strategies, such as verifying a teen’s location and communicating frequently about activities, to enforce rules, to make decisions about management strategies with their teen, and to react promptly when rules are broken. Dishion and colleagues (1988) initially reported that parental monitoring was negatively associated with adolescent participation in deviant behaviors. Subsequently, numerous studies have shown that higher parental monitoring is associated with lower levels of delinquent behavior and substance use in normative samples of adolescents