N. Shore Health program
focuses on the difficulties
of hyperactive children

PARENTS. FACING the
challenges of raising
hyperactive children have a
new resource to turn to on
the North Shore beginning
next month.

By Michael! Becker
News Reporter

The North Shore Health child
and adolescent program is spon-
soring the establishment of a
Tutual support group for parents
of  attention-deficit hyperactivity
disordered (ADHD) children.

According to North Shore
Health child and adolescent pro-
gram director Asad Qureshi,
ADHD is among the most com-
mon and lasting of childhood

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disorders. He conservatively
estimates that about 10% of
children share the problem.

Both children and parents have
a tough time coping with the
disorder.

Said Qureshi, ‘“‘These kids are
very hard to discipline. With
another child you tell the child,
satisfy the kid’s curiosity and tell
them the rules. But with atten-
tion-deficit disordered kids if you
tell them ‘no’, it doesn’t have any
effect.

“Also with other kids praise is
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has this difficulty you can praise
them, it sticks for two minutes
and then it is gone again.’’

ADHD children also require a
for of attention.

Said Qureshi, ‘‘They are very
demanding. The parents get very
fittle support. Everybody thinks
that it is their fault that they have
these ‘brats’.’”

The inaugural meeting of the
mutual support group is scheduled
for 7:30 p.m., Feb. 5, in the
education centre of North Shore
Health, Sixth Floor, 132 W.
Esplanade in North Vancouver.

Qureshi stresses that the
primary goal of the group will be
to foster mutual support.

“*It will not be a parent training
or therapy group. It will be up to
the parents to decide where they
want to go. They formulate their
own group. We provide them with
a space to meet and any other
administrative assistance they
might need,’’ he said. _

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