Treatments for ADHD

 
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At Hamilton Family Counseling we specialize in therapy for children ages 2-12 who have difficulty managing behaviors, emotions, impulses or who have challenges with attention, concentration, hyperactivity, or executive functioning related to ADHD.

 

Foster and adoptive families can especially benefit.
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ADHD & Academic Challenges

To address academic struggles associated with ADHD, we provide the Parent-Child Care (PC-CARE), developed at UC Davis Children’s Hospital.

 
 

PC-CARE empowers parents and children with therapeutic strategies that can be configured into educational therapy plans specific to each child to increase focus, organization skills, motivation, and self-confidence in school assignments, improve executing functioning, and even help children come to enjoy non-preferred subjects.

We also offer a Acdemic Success Group for parents to learn the therapeutic skills they can implement to help empower their children for academic success. The group is open to parents of children with or without ADHD including otherwise typical children who struggle with confidence and motivation as well children who are neurodivergent, gifted, and profoundly gifted.

 

ADHD & Disruptive Behaviors

 

Children with ADHD may also experience difficulty with managing emotions and impulses and may need specialized parenting strategies to address anxious and disruptive behaviors like the following:

 
 

  • Arguing or fighting with family or peers

  • Hyperactivity and impulsivity

  • Irritability, whining, crying, or yelling

  • Outbursts, meltdowns, tantrums

  • Difficulty managing emotions

  • Fighting, hitting, breaking or throwing things

  • Difficulty with morning, mealtime, or bedtime routines

  • Difficulty completing chores or tasks

  • Difficulty with responding to or following instructions

 
 

Anxious and disruptive behaviors in childhood been linked to higher rates of high school dropout, substance abuse, unemployment, and even incarceration.

 
 

But PCIT can change a child’s entire life trajectory.

 
 
 

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

For children with ADHD & disruptive behaviors, we provide Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).

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Many child mental health experts consider PCIT to be the gold standard in treating a child’s disruptive behaviors because, after hundreds of studies over 40 years, nothing is more effective for child disruptive behaviors than completing PCIT.

 
 
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The Benefits of PCIT

Through PCIT parents learn therapeutic skills to help their children learn to manage their emotions, behaviors, and energy levels, as well as extend their attention span.

With strategies that are nurturing and effective, PCIT can radically transform behaviors in just 14 weeks, improve school behaviors, and improve the behaviors of siblings.

 
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PC-CARE Calming Strategies

We also provide all families with the option of integrating PCIT with PC-CARE Calming Strategies so parents can learn to dissolve tantrums and children can begin learning to self soothe.

Our Stance on Timeouts

 
 
 

Let’s work together to transform your child’s challenges into triumphs
and increase the peace and connection in your home!

 

Additional Treatment Options

We also provide Parent Only Strategy Sessions where parents can ask questions and get on the same page with quick, practical parenting solutions that both parents agree on.

And our Online Parenting Bootcamp teaches the principles of PCIT and PC-CARE in a support group atmosphere from the comfort of your home.

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