台灣過動兒家長團體治療的十年回顧

10 year history of Taiwan ADHD parent training group psychotherapy

The prevalence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is very high. Therefore, child's mental health education topic must pay great attention to psychotherapeutic strategy on helping ADHD children co-occurring with serious emotional disturbance. Taiwan's serious emotional disturbed children's mother often complained that usually parent did not obtain the proper psychological therapy because most of child psychiatrist considered only giving diagnosis and only prescribing a medicine in busy clinical setting. Each time the child psychiatrist in the outpatient service will deliver less than several words then the parent was driving out. The Mackay Memorial Hospital started the parent training group therapy service in outpatient service setting under the group therapeutic model of Professor Jane in 1999. Many parents of ADHD children indicated although they need 12 sectioned group therapy but they could not extract 12 time group therapy time to finish whole course of group therapy, therefore modified four units, four session group therapy was developed on one year later. Still group leader need to facilitate ADHD children's parent to state their question and provided the behavior modification strategy toward parent. Such parenting training group therapy indeed meet parent's need and actually has the curative and economic efficiency toward ADHD children and their parent. In conclusion, if combined therapy of ADHD children only focuses on the pharmacological treatment is humiliating. Under Taiwan's limited manpower and wealth medical service system, we should consider the ADHD parenting group therapy and hope more physicians, psychologist, and social worker personnel to start such ADHD parenting training group therapy and finally to lead Taiwan's ADHD children to grows up joyfully under healthy environment.