ADHD Weekly -- How Does an ADHD Diagnosis Affect Self-Esteem?

[KarenADHDWeekly]

ADHD can take a toll of a child or a young person's self esteem, one that can be carried into adulthood. We talked with an expert on how to help your child strengthen her self-esteem.

Learn our expert's suggestions at "How Does an ADHD Diagnosis Affect Self-Esteem?" bit.ly/nrcdxselfesteem .

How do you strengthen your child's self-esteem? How have you improved your own self-image?

[Kyhlee]

If you are constantly reprimanded for your behaviors brought about due to ADHD, your self esteem is definitely adversely affected!!

Now that my grandson is medicated and impulse control is improved, his self esteem is slowly building. His counselor works on it weekly and we watch for and reinforce positively whenever we catch him doing things well (related to managing adhd behaviors or not). He has started to acknowledge and agree when receiving praise for positive behavior (saying things like “yes, I did work hard on that”). Baby steps!!