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It’s important to break it down this way because children look very different at various ages, their developmental tasks are different, and the environment in which they are behaving and living is different. Consequently, the underlying disorders of ADHD will manifest themselves uniquely at those ages and have a distinct effect on the most crucial aspects of development.When ADHD presents itself in an older school-age child, an adolescent, or even an adult, so much has gone into developing that person’s character that to say ADHD is the only force at work is extremely simplistic. We must go back to the beginning and look at how the syndrome first appeared, as well as how the difficulties related to it interacted with the child’s environment to distort his development right from the start.It often helps to think of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as an onion, made up of layers, each having a dramatic impact on the next. Parents need to have a strong understanding of this multilayered aspect of ADHD in order to design the treatment approach that will be most helpful for their child.*14\173\2*

Process oriented dreambody work uses the concept of disease only as it plays a role in the personal psychology of the individual. Diseases are frequently formulated by the client as enemies to overcome. Many who experience their symptoms discover them to be purposeful expressions of the human unconscious which are searching for more expression. People are, a priori, neither ill nor well in the process paradigm. Body work indicates that the body is dreaming since amplifying body symptoms seems always to produce processes which mirror what the ‘sick person’ is dreaming. Thus, since one always dreams, it follows that one also has many types of body experiences. Just as some dreams are pleasant and others scary, some body experiences are pleasant and others are troublesome. Being sick is a primary description of a secondary process disturbing us. Change, in the process paradigm, occurs through the confrontation of awareness with processes trying to unfold. Since many processes cannot unfold completely, they spin in mid-air, like a wheel not touching the ground. This spinning may be experienced as a relationship problem, a body symptom, a dream, a neurosis, a psychosis or combinations of all of these expressions.
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