Excessive television watching and children with ADHD

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Effects of Excessive TV Watching and Children with ADHD

Effects of Excessive TV Watching and Children with ADHD

All the stages of human development are deeply affected by the environment provided to an individual . This environment comprises of a sensitive and consistent care , a strong emotional support and suitable learning aids which help in fostering a secure and strong attachment behavior in children . Such children view themselves positively as loveable figures and others too as trustworthy and emotionally accessible people

. On the contrary , abnormally high intrusive unpredictable or unkind attitude of parents towards a child and inadequate learning opportunities are more likely to push the child to adopt an insecure and confused attachment behavior , leading to development of behavior diss in a child . Attention Deficit Hyperactive Dis (ADHD ) is one such common behavior dis which is marked by the lack of concentration , hyperactivity and impulsiveness in a child . The major cause for the development of this dis in children is associated with the environment . Television is a prime source of learning for children and forms the basic component of today 's environment . Once the television was introduced , a lot of questions were raised over what effects this might have on children . Today , there are over 1000 research studies which indicate a close link between television and violent , aggressive and anti-social behavior in children Television can therefore be regarded as a major causative factor towards development of behavior diss like ADHD in children . This will focus on the same issue , first highlighting the specifics of ADHD and then broadening the scope to the effects of excessive watching of television on children in to establish a relation between ADHD and TV

What is Attention Deficit Hyperactive Dis

The past 50 years have named and renamed ADHD as Minimal Brain Dysfunction , Hyperactive Child Syndrome and Attention Deficit Dis with or without hyperactivity the present day term being ADHD-Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Dis . All these diss possess common symptoms of impulsiveness , lack of concentration inattentiveness , impatience and restlessness . ADHD is known to affect approximately 4 of all children , though the wider range of possible sufferers is from 3 to 11 or more (Michelle and Joel 1175-1183

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of American Psychiatric Association , describing the diagnostic criteria for explaining ADHD , has continued to put forth modified categorization of ADHD constituents Nowadays , at least six out of nine symptoms of each , inattention and hyperactivity , should be present in a victim , to label him /her as suffering from combined type ADHD (DSM IV - APA . In addition , there must be some impairment from symptoms in two or more settings (e .g . home and school ) and clear evidence of significant impairment in social school or work functioning . The DSM IV also allows the classification of two subtype diss (i ) predominantly inattentive where the child only meets criteria for inattention and (ii ) predominantly hyperactive-impulsive where only the hyperactive-impulsive criteria are met

ADHD represents a damaging effect which is...