Challenge of Interventions: To What extent Parental Management Training, Neurofeedback, and Stimulant therapy (Ritalin) Improve AD/HD and Parental Stress Index

This research designed to evaluate and compare effectiveness of stimu-lant therapy (Ritalin), neurofeedb-ack, and parental management traini-ng on improving Attention Deficit/-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and parental stress index. This is a pse-udo-experimental research with prêt-est-posttest design.Statistical population includes ADHD children of Tehran; 30 subjects selected randomly from clients of a professional child psychiatric/psycho-logical clinic, and then assigned into 3 intervention groups based on objectives of the study. The subjects were measured by Connor's Parenting Scale-48 and Parental Stress Index before and after the interventions. Recruited data analyzed in two sections of descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings of the research revealed that there was significant difference in concentration and hyp-eractivity index of ADHD children between groups, indicating that Ritalin was more effective than PMT, and neurofeedback; there was no significant difference between them on impulsivity index. Also PMT and Ritalin were more profitable in improvement of reinforcing subscale than neurofeecback; and there was no significant difference between the treatments on parental attachment.