Week 6 - Interventions to Promote Social Participation for Children with Mental Health & Behavioural Disorders

Question 1

What are some common social problems in ASD individuals?

Answer 1

• Interpersonal communication
• Social relationships
• Relatively poor insight into their own difficulties
• Being bullied / teased
• Executive function
• TOM
• Social awareness
• Social motivation
• Social problem solving

Question 2

What are some common social problems in FASD individuals?

Answer 2

• Social competence, relationships, problem solving
• Inappropriate friendliness
• Difficulty with peer relationships & socially appropriate interactions
• Social withdrawal
• Being teased, bullied
• Poor social judgement
• Difficulties with perceiving or responding to social cues, exhibiting considerations for others
• Difficulties forming reciprocal friendship
• Executive function
• TOM
• Social problem solving

Question 3

What are some common social problems in ADHD individuals?

Answer 3

• Attentional & cognitive functions (i.e. problem solving, planning, orientating, flexibility, sustained attention, response inhibition, working memory, emotional regulation executive function)

Question 4

What are some common social problems in individuals with Anxiety Disorders?

Answer 4

• Social skills, interaction
• Awareness of others
• Self-management
• Problem solving
• Executive function

Question 5

What are some common social problems in individuals with Learning Disabilities?

Answer 5

• Social awareness, interaction
• Inability to cooperate & establish positive relationships with peers
• Social problem solving
• Executive function

Question 6

What are some common social problems in individuals with mood disorders?

Answer 6

• Self-regulation
• Coping
• Communication skills
• Social skills

Question 7

What are the theoretical models that explains social skills difficulties?

Answer 7

• Theory of Mind: cannot see from others POV
• Weak Central Coherence Hypothesis: tendency to process all stimuli in fragmented fashion (details rather than integrated whole)
• Limitation in joint attention: lack of awareness of other’s non-verbal communication
• Executive Dysfunction Hypothesis: lack of self-organising elements required in general learning

Question 8

What are the areas assessed during social skills assessment?

Answer 8

• Eye contact during interaction
• Understanding of non-verbal communication
• Social awkwardness
• Sense of humor
• Turn-taking / sharing
• Appropriate voice volume
• Interest in others
• Understanding of rules & appropriate proximity

Question 9

How does Peer Mediated Intervention as an approach for social intervention works?

Answer 9

• Typical developing children are partnered with children with disabilities
• Social skills program includes at least 1 peer who is of the same age or slightly older; occasionally a younger sibling can also be effective
• Peers can be taught to remind child with disability on what they need to do in certain situations

Question 10

How does Sensory Integration Intervention as an approach for social intervention works?

Answer 10

• Difficulty with sensory integration can lead to difficulty with self-esteem, self-actualisation, socialisation and play
• Principles of sensory modulation to be embedded in each sessions to enhance filtering of activity, recognising & maintaining optimal level of arousal throughout the session
• Uses self-regulation at the start of each social skills session by providing participant-initiated sensory modulation activities (e.g. jumping into ball pit)

Question 11

How does Self-Determination Theory as an approach for social intervention works?

Answer 11

Meeting the needs of Autonomy, Competency and Sense of Relatedness to promote well-being

Question 12

How does Social Cognitive Theory as an approach for social intervention works?

Answer 12

Children learn by observing the behaviors of others. 2 phases included:

• Acquisition: child observe the behaviour and its consequences
• Performance: child performs the behaviour based on their perception of the situation and its consequence

Question 13

How does Behavioural Intervention as an approach for social intervention works?

Answer 13

States that behaviour is a response to an environmental stimulus and behaviour is reinforced by environmental consequences that follows.

• Positive / negative reinforcement

Question 14

Interventions for promoting specific social behaviours & adherence to social rules

Answer 14

• Video modelling
• Social scripts
• Power cards
• Social stories
• Applied behavioural analysis
• Privacy circles