Irit Bar Netzer: Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Adoptive and Foster Families: Improving Child and Family Outcomes and Adjustment - Slide presentation
The lecture focuses on the great importance of clinical and therapeutic intervention in improving behaviors, parent-child relationships and more, in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome cases.
Irit Bar Netzer: Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Adoptive and Foster ...Beitissie1
The lecture focuses on the great importance of clinical and therapeutic intervention in improving behaviors, parent-child relationships and more, in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome cases.
ADHD is a problem with inattentiveness, over-activity, impulsivity, or a combination. For these problems to be diagnosed as ADHD, they must be out of the normal range for a child's age and development.
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Irit Bar Netzer: Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Adoptive and Foster ...Beitissie1
The lecture focuses on the great importance of clinical and therapeutic intervention in improving behaviors, parent-child relationships and more, in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome cases.
ADHD is a problem with inattentiveness, over-activity, impulsivity, or a combination. For these problems to be diagnosed as ADHD, they must be out of the normal range for a child's age and development.
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder that affects the brain and results in a variety of inappropriate and maladaptive behaviors. ADHD is not a disease (Kajander 1995) but is a processing deficit that results in children having difficulty with inhibitory control. That is, children with ADHD lack self-control, something they cannot help. In children with ADHD, the parts of the brain that control attention and stop inappropriate behavior are underdeveloped (Barkley 1996; Kajander 1995). ADHD occurs three times more frequently in male students than female students (Reeve et al. 1995) and commonly occurs with other disorders. For example, ADHD occurs in 20 percent to 50 percent of the students with learning disabilities, in 65 percent of the students with oppositional defiant disorder, and in 20 percent to 30 percent of the students with conduct disorder (Reeve et al. 1995; Barkley 1990).
Presenter: Gregory Fabiano, Ph.D.
From: UB Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention, Colloquium Series (April 9, 2015)
More: gse.buffalo.edu/alberticenter
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic, pervasive childhood mental health disorder with a typical onset during early childhood, and it results in considerable impairments in social, academic, and family functioning.
Evidence-based treatments for ADHD include pharmacological interventions and behavioral interventions. Behavioral interventions typically include teaching parents and teachers how to manipulate and control the antecedents and consequences of behavior to promote increased adaptive functioning and reduce problematic behaviors. Recent innovations in behavioral interventions include using social, recreational activities to engage fathers in treatment programs, combining pharmacological and behavioral interventions to promote appropriate behaviors in schools, and enhancing special education services for youth with ADHD.
Emphasis within the talk will include a discussion of how youth with ADHD and their families can be effectively treated to reduce their roles as both perpetrators and recipients of aggressive, bullying, and other negative social behaviors.