Child psychological therapy
Psychological treatment for children with ADHD can include
sessions covering social skills training, anger management and
problem solving. Although such approaches are recommended
for some children with ADHD (NICE 2008), the evidence supporting
their efficacy is limited at this stage (Toplak et al. 2008;
Storebo et al. 2011). The Incredible Years (IY) programme offers
a child training programme that when used in adjunct to the IY
parenting programme, is associated with improvement in
ADHD symptoms and defiant child behaviour in pre-school
children (Webster-Stratton et al. 2011). In addition, treatment
effects were maintained 12 months post intervention (Webster-
Stratton et al. 2013). It is possible that psychological treatment
may be more efficacious when implemented as part of a
multimodal approach during the pre-school years, although
this is a matter awaiting future research.