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The Nurtured Heart Approach is an amazing set of strategies developed specifically for children with ADHD and other challenging behaviors to facilitate parenting and classroom success. These methods have helped thousands of families to transform their child from using their intensity in primarily negative ways to using their intensity in beautifully creative and constructive ways. This approach has also helped teachers and other school personnel to have a dramatically positive effect on all children.

Most ordinary methods of parenting and teaching inadvertently backfire when applied to ADHD and other challenging children, despite the best of intentions. Most methods accidentally reward children by giving them far greater evidence of richer relationship and more alive energy when things are going wrong in contrast to our typically low key responses when they are living their life successfully. The Nurtured Heart Approach is a powerful and quick way to create a new scenario of success. This approach is fully described in the book, Transforming the Difficult Child, The Nurtured Heart Approach.

The Children's Success Foundation has achieved national acclaim for work with children who have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD) and other behaviorally challenging conditions. The approach has also had excellent results with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) and other abuse, neglect and chaos related syndromes, as well as with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Autism.

We have had extraordinary results in helping parents and teachers to quickly succeed in becoming extraordinarily skillful and effective in helping children to achieve wonderful new levels of competency... almost always without the need for medications or long-term treatment.

Medications moderate the child's intensity or, in effect, make it go away. The normal view is that the child's intensity is the problem. The medical community generally reports that ADHD is a genetic and bio-chemical condition and that the best one can hope for, through a combination of medications and behavior management, is a modest amount of improvement. The truth is that with the right approach you can turn these children around to an amazing level of success, despite the propensities of a pre-existing condition. With the Nurtured Heart Approach these very same children can use their intensity in wonderful ways and instead of acting-out problems can act-out greatness!