Week 6 - Interventions to Promote Social Participation for Children with Mental Health & Behavioural Disorders Flashcards
What are some common social problems in ASD individuals?
- Interpersonal communication
- Social relationships
- Relatively poor insight into their own difficulties
- Being bullied / teased
- Executive function
- TOM
- Social awareness
- Social motivation
- Social problem solving
What are some common social problems in FASD individuals?
- 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
What are some common social problems in ADHD individuals?
- Attentional & cognitive functions (i.e. problem solving, planning, orientating, flexibility, sustained attention, response inhibition, working memory, emotional regulation executive function)
What are some common social problems in individuals with Anxiety Disorders?
- Social skills, interaction
- Awareness of others
- Self-management
- Problem solving
- Executive function
What are some common social problems in individuals with Learning Disabilities?
- Social awareness, interaction
- Inability to cooperate & establish positive relationships with peers
- Social problem solving
- Executive function
What are some common social problems in individuals with mood disorders?
- Self-regulation
- Coping
- Communication skills
- Social skills
What are the theoretical models that explains social skills difficulties?
- 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
What are the areas assessed during social skills assessment?
- 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
How does Peer Mediated Intervention as an approach for social intervention works?
- 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
How does Sensory Integration Intervention as an approach for social intervention works?
- 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)
How does Self-Determination Theory as an approach for social intervention works?
Meeting the needs of Autonomy, Competency and Sense of Relatedness to promote well-being
How does Social Cognitive Theory as an approach for social intervention works?
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
How does Behavioural Intervention as an approach for social intervention works?
States that behaviour is a response to an environmental stimulus and behaviour is reinforced by environmental consequences that follows.
- Positive / negative reinforcement
Interventions for promoting specific social behaviours & adherence to social rules
- Video modelling
- Social scripts
- Power cards
- Social stories
- Applied behavioural analysis
- Privacy circles
