Psychosocial interventions teach students with ADHD to deal effectively with life stressors. The treatment is individualized and directed at areas which are challenging for that student. Focusing on these issues is extremely significant for the success of that student in and out the classroom for example; helping them to get alone with others and forming therapeutic peer relationships. Psychosocial intervention combined with medication therapy is most effective. However, alternative treatment…
Response to Intervention (RTI) is a three tier model that includes several components. RTI includes high quality, research-based instruction and behavioral supports; universal screening of academics and behavior in order to determine individualized student needs; multiple tiers of increasingly intense scientific, research-based interventions that are matched to students needs and a cooperative approach by school staff for development, implementation, and monitoring of the interventions. RTI…
Treatments can be within families, and types of family therapy and family involvement are effective (Bertrand et al., 2013). Treatments can also come from the school setting, and “school-based interventions have been recommended to be implemented to reduce this burden given initiation of such drug use typically occurs during adolescence” (Hodder et al., 2014). There needs to be a community approach to treatment with the needs of the community taken…
The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on the Working Memory in College Students Previous research studies have exhibited evidence towards the relationship between meditation and improved academic scores (Foris, 2005). With meditation becoming a widely popular topic, especially for its benefits in the reduction of stress and anxiety, it is questioned whether the use of proper mindfulness meditation has positive effects on the working memory and if so, do those effects differentiate between males…
Throughout the community and environment this intervention seeks to change the school environment and structure by changing the curriculum and how kids learn. Part of the change that is suggested is to have active class rooms where part of the learning involves active participation (SHAPE America, 2015). This not not a strength or a weakness necessarily as it is just making a change. But, it could become a weakness especially if including physical activity in the classroom occurs to the…
Intervention Children are part of a family unit, these families are part of a community, and that community is part of the society. In order to really be able to help these young children it is essential to understand how these social systems are interconnected and affect the child directly. The current foster care system sees separation from the caregiver as the most viable intervention, however, this at best addresses the problem on a short term basis and does not enact true change. When…
Introduction Human beings are very complex and they are hard to comprehend and understand. People are unique and they have their own special abilities and free will. The human mind is the most powerful organ of the body because it is the operator of everything that the body does. Every single movement and action that the body does is controlled by the mind. Counselling psychologists find it of interest to know if whether or not human beings have distinctive characteristics in their thinking,…
Early intervention programs are provided all over the United States to premature infants to age three, but sometimes it can even go beyond if approved during certain situations. Early intervention programs vary from state to state with rules and regulations, but overall it helps children that are born with disabilities or developmental delays during the time they should be developing the skills that a normal developing child would have developed. These children can be either be environmentally…
There has also been increasing evidence that psychosocial interventions are powerful in alleviating these patients’ schizophrenia and enhancing their functioning, accordingly offering help for the recommendation they are a crucial piece of the treatment alternatives available for advancing patient recuperation from schizophrenia. There are five noteworthy classifications of psychosocial intervention have been utilized as a part of the group based treatment of patients with schizophrenia, with…
individuals with mental illnesses. Individuals like Schizophrenics require the help of family members to assist in their treatment, management of tasks and handling their impairments (Palli, Kontoangelos, Richardson, & Economou, 2015). Psychoeducational Intervention is considerably beneficial to the schizophrenic population (Palli, Kontoangelos, Richardson, & Economou, 2015).When it comes to family’s ability to cope with their individual’s mental impairment, it can be difficult for them to be…