Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Case Study

Learning is one of the most crucial factors to a child’s development. Many children express different patterns on the way they learn which, occasionally, become a case of a learning disorders, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The patient with ADHD becomes a Child with Special Needs: various types of difficulties that can require a person to receive additional support. In the textbook Invitation to the life span, the authors, Kathleen Berger and Susan Chuang, explain that before we talk about curing the disorder, we need to three concepts regarding it. Disorders are likely to be comorbid, meaning that there could be more than one disease present in one person. They can have a single cause that can trigger a variety of effects, this is also known as multifinality. Finally, a disorder can have one symptom with many roots, also known as equifinality. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a mental sickness that is rarely seen in young children, in fact, it is seen in about one out of ten times (Berger & Chuang, 2014, p.277). Most children with this disorder generally have a hard time focusing and feel the urge to engage in other activities. Most patients with …show more content…
We will focus on the distinction between both disorders. As mentioned previously, ADHD is having difficulty paying attention with the possibility of also exhibiting behavioral problem. Furthermore, the symptoms are consistent. Alternatively, bipolar disorder is a brain disease. It is depicted by intense mood swings that is not related to their outside experiences, as if our mood was independent of the mind (Berger & Chuang,2014, p.279). What’s more is that the symptoms are not consistent, for example a boy may feel happy three days and will feel that nothing can stop from doing anything and then for the next four days, he will feel sad. The shift between both moods is not connected to any external