Which intervention promotes opportunities for the client with ADHD to experience successful behavior?

Which intervention promotes opportunities for the client with ADHD to experience successful behavior?

• A. Encourage the client to work until he is no longer comfortably able to do so.
• B. Develop brief working periods with planned breaks.
• C. Allow the constant use of soft background music.
• D. Allow the client to keep a few cookies at his work space.

Answer: (B)

For ADHD, structuring work into short, manageable segments with planned breaks helps maintain attention, reduce restlessness, and create frequent opportunities to experience successful behavior. When tasks are broken down, the client can complete small wins, which boosts motivation and reinforces staying on task. Planned breaks prevent cognitive fatigue and impulsive shifts, making it easier to return to the task calmly and continue progress. Pushing to work until fatigue can worsen attention lapses and frustration, undermining success. Background music may distract some individuals with ADHD and isn’t a reliable method for promoting consistent task engagement. Keeping cookies at the workspace doesn’t address attention or self-regulation and may reinforce unhelpful behavioral patterns.

For ADHD, structuring work into short, manageable segments with planned breaks helps maintain attention, reduce restlessness, and create frequent opportunities to experience successful behavior. When tasks are broken down, the client can complete small wins, which boosts motivation and reinforces staying on task. Planned breaks prevent cognitive fatigue and impulsive shifts, making it easier to return to the task calmly and continue progress.

Pushing to work until fatigue can worsen attention lapses and frustration, undermining success. Background music may distract some individuals with ADHD and isn’t a reliable method for promoting consistent task engagement. Keeping cookies at the workspace doesn’t address attention or self-regulation and may reinforce unhelpful behavioral patterns.