I have mentioned in an earlier post, ways to make long-term compliance with therapies like Neurofeedback more likely. For a child to to do regular Neurofeedback sessions over a long period of time, it might well take the excitement of having the therapy packaged as fun video games.
One video gaming technique based on Neurofeedback that has come out in the past year, is Focus Pocus…
One interesting feature of Focus Pocus is the way parental involvement is incorporated as part of the system:
One additional idea to ensure maximal long-term compliance to a therapy like the one just mentioned, is to follow the research from a 2009 best-selling book on raising children, Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Think About Raising Our Children is Wrong by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. A parent can tweak their parenting style to bring maximum effort out of their child in the long term; for example focusing on praise for a child’s effort (which is something that a child can control) rather than praise for his/her intelligence (which is something out of their control), and focusing on intermittent reinforcement (rather than frequent praise) teaches a child persistence…
(sources: Video Game Uses Brain to Control Action | PCWorld; Focus Pocus?? is the world’s first learning application that effectively incorporates NeuroSky’s real time electroencephalography.; Are parents creating generation of ‘praise junkies’? Being too encouraging can backfire, says study - New York Daily News)