Evidence-based practice uses empirically supported interventions to provide clients with effective therapeutic treatments. There are four important areas to gather information from when engaging in evidence-based practice. These four areas include: scientific evidence, client’s needs, clinical expertise, and service context. As students, our clinical expertise is still growing; therefore, it is valuable to reach out to practitioners with experience in our area of study. My main learning circle topic
The clients slightly improved their ability to use the phone and family caregivers reported “increased satisfaction” with the adaptation (Letts, et al., 2011). Other environmental modifications that OT practitioners make include labeling cabinets and drawers so that the patient knows what should go inside (Dooley & Hinojosa, 2004)
2003; Simpson, 2014). NDD generally affects the elderly, and thus as the average age of our population continues to rise, the prevalence of NDD will increase right along with it, which calls for health care professionals to be trained in evidence-based interventions for persons with NDD, as well as increased research into cures and effective pharmacological treatments (Simpson, 2014). While there are some pharmacological treatments for NDD, in general they are only modestly effective and often have
Has ABA Been Filling the Gap? Applied behavior analysis (ABA) can be applied to different settings, which may range from helping individuals with phobias to training a dog to sit. ABA is the process of scientifically applying interventions to complex or basic situations (Baer, Wolf, & Risley, 1968). ABA is founded on the values of learning theory in order to develop and comprehend specific target behaviors (Baer, Wolf, & Risley, 1968). Such work emphasizes the understanding of behavior. ABA aligns
she is experiencing from being a primary caregiver. Therefore, the initial treatment priority for Ms. K is to conduct an assessment that measures caregiver’s burden and follow-up with skill building training over the phone. The objective of this study is to answer the question, are elderly caregivers who receive caregiver burden screenings alone more likely to have negative health outcomes than elderly caregivers who also receive skill building interventions? Method For the purpose of this study
By training parents to implement the intervention of pivotal response training, clinicians can increase parent competency/confidence/self-efficacy, decrease parent/caregiver stress, and increase joint attention and communication in children with autism spectrum disorders. Pivotal Response Training (PRT) is a naturalistic, behavioral intervention approach developed by Drs. Robert L. Koegel & Laura Schreibman (Autism Intervention Research Program, 2009). According to the Autism Intervention Research
full potential, Healing Homes focuses on a curriculum that teaches parents and caregivers how to be better listeners and supportive parents and enables children to improve. According to Dettlaf & Rycraft (2010), “immigrant Latino children and families represent the largest and fastest-growing population in the United States, and thus require the attention of child welfare systems and the development of evidence-based practices designed to respond to the unique needs of this population.” Theme I:
providing education and problem-solving strategies was beneficial for promoting self-efficacy in the experimental group whereas there was no change in the control group. Even though caregivers rated burden as higher closer to their loved one’s death, they felt better prepared for coping with the situation with the CARE intervention implemented, similar to the results of the TAILORED study by Sulmasy, et al., (2017) regarding decision making at the end of life. The researchers encouraged further randomized
basis. Language intervention, therefore, should include a component of training and educating the caregivers as well as the person with aphasia (Purdy & Hindenlang, 2005). In recent years, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have begun to take more of a social context approach to aphasia intervention, making it more functional for the client and including the caregivers through training (Turner & Whitworth, 2006). Many studies have investigated different types of caregiver training programs and their
Parent-Child Attachment Issues: A parent-child attachment can be described as the social and emotional relationship or connection between adults and children. Generally, an attachment is the emotional and social link that both children and adults develop with important people in their lives. As children head to school for the first time in their lives, they usually experience anxiety regarding the new environment without someone they have an attachment with. A health parent-child attachment is