Social Work Intervention with a Child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder A Case Report

The parent-child relationship is one of the most important relationships a person experiences throughout the life. This period has a crucial role in determining the personality of an adult. For this reason, interventions to educate parents in order to have a better relationship and prevente of possible adulthood trauma are necessary. This study was aimed to report a social work interventions with an attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder child to reduce the child's destructive behaviors and indirectly teach his parents to improve how to interact with him and have a secure attachment.

Case Description: 

Parsa (pseudonym) is a six-year-old boy diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Despite frequent hospitalizations, he is no longer responde to pharmacotherapy, and his parents are helpless in dealing with him. Social work interventions by emphasizing the theory of attachment and using the Person-in-Environment approach reduced the symptoms in the child.

In this case, the social worker worked based on the attachment theory and tried to train the mother and teacher. Given the effectiveness of this approach, it can be suggested as an effective approach to other specialists in the field. Of course, in this way, there were obstacles such as mere attention to pharmacotherapy, not being participated parents in the treatment process, lack of systematic view of the treatment team and their lack of awareness of the role of social worker, which fixing them will lead to better results.