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By Keath Low, About.com Guide to ADD / ADHD

The Importance of Treating the Whole Child

Sunday April 20, 2008

Clearly, there are stressors that can impact our children’s emotional and behavioral health. It is important that we keep these stressors in mind when we assess treatment approaches for our children. By simply treating symptoms, we may neglect to look deeper into the underlying causes of the problematic behaviors. Thoroughly exploring these issues also helps prevent misdiagnosis and consequently, inappropriate treatment.

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