How Interpersonal Skills of Caregivers Affecting the Process of Caring Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders

Abstract

Nursing children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) requires interpersonal communication to ptovide proper and optimal care for the recipient. This study was conducted to define and analyze how interpersonal skills influence the process of caring of children with ADHD using six categories of Heron’s framework. We utilised an earlier instrument developed by Burnard and Morrison’s findings to examine which type of Heron’s categories that owned by most caregivers of children with ADHD. Our findings shows that caregivers of children with ADHD perceived themselves to be most skilled in supportive and prescriptive. The least categories they perceived were catalyctic and cathartic. Discussion upon how caregivers perception function the most were offered. These findings could add new perspective to provide information of caregivers perceptions who provide care for children with ADHD.