ADHD & Conduct Disorder

• For ADHD and conduct disorder, treatment focuses on parent training. This training teacher parents how to cope with their child. Support from parents can help children regulate their behaviors.

Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Behavioral therapy can improve the child’s cognitive, social, and language skills. This intervention requires at least 25 hours a week to help children with their behaviors.

Depression

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps change the way people think. Thinking patterns can cause unhealthy behaviors that can worsen health. Research is still looking at how effective CBT is for children and adolscents.

Other Methods:

• Direct-targeting approach – focuses on academic deficits
• Broader Academic Interventions – programs that support children as well as parents such as ParentCorps
• Prevention rather than treatment
• Head Start programs – provides children with mental health problems with resources

(Cuellar, 2015)