The treatment of ADHD requires comprehensive interventions in your child’s multiple environments in order to improve his or her ability to function. Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other organizations encourage physicians and other healthcare professionals to work as a team with family and school or job personnel. Together you can set realistic treatment and performance goals and evaluate your child’s response in every area of activity.

Properly selected and attentively administered medications have generated life-changing results in children with ADHD. However, there are many issues to consider when you initiate drug treatment: the difficulty of accurate diagnosis, the vigilance required to monitor and adjust medication, the addicting potential of the medications, and the tendency to over treat with medication while ignoring behavioral and lifestyle interventions. These concerns make treatment of ADHD a controversial issue in the field of medicine.

Treatment involves the following:

At this time, there are no surgical procedures for treating ADHD.