Conclusion
As a consequence, the modified CBGT intervention offered implications for treating ADHD symptoms, which is an area that few research studies explored before. Additionally, both the CBGT counseling and the conciliatory ADHD symptoms help to largely decrease parenting stress by modeling different parenting skills. Overall, the results were optimistic that the intervention was beneficial not solely for children with ADHD themselves, but also for the family as a whole. Furthermore, we achieved our primary goal of improving social adjustment abilities by providing group counseling to facilitate the improvement of attention level and reduction of hyperactivity of children with ADHD, so that they can assimilate into a normal social environment.
In light of this experiment, there were certainly some limitations that could be addressed in the future. Although the application of medication was stopped in the last three months before participating in the study, the effectiveness of medication on individuals would still cause difference. It is possible that the drugs might have a continuous impact on neurons and transmitters of these children, which made it very difficult for us to do a pharmacodynamic analysis in terms of neurology to detect the effect of the dose on individual’s brain and somatic functions. Moreover, the sample size of the study was small and limited to the Psychology Department in the hospital, so generalizing from these two studies is quite difficult. But it would be applicable to have the modified intervention multiple times in a year with different groups of children and parents, which allows the sample size to grow and at the same time offers more opportunities for children with ADHD problems to improve their social abilities. Overall, our results show that modified CBGT can effectively treat children with ADHD, which indicates that further research is extremely significant in the application of such interventions. In spite of the fact that many ADHD treatment methods exist, CBGT intervention is an emerging concept that offers many benefits both to children with ADHD as well as their parents. A future topic to continue researching would be the conduct of more research on ADHD and associated disorders using CBGT intervention.