PSYC2208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cognitive Therapy, Behaviour Therapy, Developmental Disorder
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Stages to intervention in a developmental disorder: prevention, limit the causes, prevent the disorder from occurring, e. g. public anti alcohol campaigns, anti-bullying programs in school, treatment, aimed at reducing dysfunction. Intervenes with child and/or environment: maintenance, ensuring adherence to treatment, limits recurrence of problems. Steps of treatment: establish the goals for treatment, outcomes related to the child"s functioning, objectives relating to family functioning, outcomes at societal level, broader environment. Improve engagement in school related activities, friends etc: goals remade as the treatment progresses. Intellectual disability: can arise from various causes. Involves significant impairment in general intelligence and deficits in adaptive behaviour: other labels: Intellectual developmental disorder: mental retardation, global developmental delay, prevalence, between 1-3% of the population, more common in males then females, correlated with anxiety/adhd/autism, sex ratio and comorbidity vary across different levels of intellectual disability. Assessing intelligence: most commonly used set of iq tests, wechsler tests, non-verbal tests available for children with little verbal skills.
