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ADHD in children and exposure to abuse

A child with ADHD is demanding both to parent and to educate. S/he can have difficulties in social and family relationships, which are often loaded with tension. It is possible that parents do not recognise and understand their child's needs and difficulties, have high expetations the child cannot possibly fulfill and react inadequately due to their own frustration. Therefore, children with ADHD are at risk of inadequate parenting, parental neglect and abuse. Data from the clinical practice of the Child Protection Centre of Zagreb are presented in this paper and include exposure of children with ADHD syndrome (N=530) to inadequate parenting, parental neglect and abuse. They also include an analysis attempting to determine the existence of some specific factors both in the parents and in the children, which may be risk factors for the exposure of children with ADHD to the aforementioned parental behaviours. Descriptive statistics was used for data processing and nonparametric procedures were used for analysis. Results show thet among the children with ADHD, the level of parents' education, divorce, child's gender and the loss of a close person, are the variables which may help differentiate between the children exposed to a certain type of inadequate parenting, as compared to children who are not exposed to such parenting. With regard to the obtained data, we reviewed general guidelines for work with parents of children with ADHD syndrome.

ADHD; abuse

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