Primary Caregiver Case Study

A,B) MSTT had Christine go back and review the reasoning for her adopting Jake and what specific behavior change she is looking for with Jake. Christine explained She adopted Jake because she wanted help a kid in need and when she and her husband met Jake it was sweet and kind. She explained during their weekly visits with Jake everything went well and Jake was looking forward to being adopted by them. She stated Jake even wanted to take on their last name which is why his last name is Andersen. She express she only wants Jake to be apart of the family. MSTT asked her what she mean by that ans she explained

Verbal prompts, redirection to remain focused on a given task, minimize outdoor play, reduced iPad games and parent meeting. The results of interventions are diverse. Adriel would respond to previous intervention such as less outdoor play and parent meeting by behaving in class and follow directions for outdoor play for the first two days of the week and then the behavior occurs again. Verbal prompting often works for the first 2 minutes and then the behavior occurs again. The support and one-to-one attention given from the staff during transitions decreased the incidents of noncompliance, pushing and yelling. The staff will model, role play, practice and discuss all these intervention strategies to support Adriel. He will be given attention when he shows replacement behaviors.

A few sets of parents underwent training in order to correctly teach their child the most effective way possible. The dependent variable being measured was the language skills their children learned over the course of a few months. months. This study reported, “that a group training model for the parents is beneficial in targeting language deficits observed in children with ASD” (Minjarez, 98). The children from the study presented enormous growth in their language skills as well as behavioral and emotional. These experiments as well as others currently being conducted help provide beneficial evidence that focus on other ways to provide education for children with ASD. Overall, while PRT itself has tremendous benefits, the fact that it can be brought into the home with evidence that it is effective is even better. This method has continued to be revised and studied for many years since the 1970’s and making it available to everyone who has a child with ASD is the overall

When one thinks of grandparents, they are usually compared to as being a wiser adult who has had various positive and negative life experiences and throughout it all managed to keep their family together. The family structure has changed and more grandparents are forced into parenting for second generation children. Raising second generation children can be difficult for the grandparents who have been forced into the role of becoming a primary caregiver. Most children have a loving and trusting relationship with their grandparents, but when the roles have been forced to change the environment changes as well. With the mass amount of changes happening to the family structure, it was necessary to assist these secondary grandparents in learning how to promote and advocate in their new roles as secondary parents. With the structural changes faced by African Americans, it was appropriate to use this group because of the barriers and challenges faced and it allows for a replication with other groups. African American women can become dominant in an unfamiliar setting, so limiting the size of the group was justifiable and allowed for more interaction and engagement among participants. Using the family system theory would be necessary because this theory places an emphasis on reciprocal relationships and mutual influences between the individual components (Barker, p. 157).

Discussion with the child’s mother gave me insight into his favorite activity at home, which was incorporated into his social story. Additional discussions with the extended care staff were essential to support the methods designed replace unwanted behavior with positive behavior. The afternoon staff used visual prompts to help the child recognize when he was exhibiting unwanted behavior. This extended collaboration ensured he expected to exhibit this behavior throughout his day.

The B.A.T. clinical team conducted a reinforcement assessment (RAISD) and the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System Third Edition (ABAS-3) assessment with Mikey’s mother, as well as reviewed some anticipated goals for Mikey and his parents. Mrs. Benavides stated she was in agreement. The B.A.T. clinical team then concluded the observation. The duration of this assessment was approximately one hour and 31

This is essential for a variety of reasons, including the importance of the caregivers understanding of the origins of the child's behavior and how to use interventions to benefit the child. Another reason is so the child is able to effectively use what they learned in therapy outside of treatment. The caregivers presence is beneficial because the child almost always,lacks the capacity to both internalize and generalize the benefits of therapy into their own social sphere (Zilberstein, 2010,p.89) A caregiver has the ability to help the child incorporate any skills and experiences cultivated in therapy in their everyday environments, and can also help to manage behavior. Case studies support the significance of a caregivers presence, suggesting that outcomes have a tendency to be less successful when an attachment figure is not able to participate in treatment. (Zilberstein,

In order to be healthy and have a good future children need special skills that their caregivers must help them learn. Being self-aware, able to overcome stress, be in command of your feelings and have a belief system are tools the child will use throughout their lifetime, therefore, the teachers must be able to communicate effectively with each other and the parents. After all, instructors in childcare settings guide the children to make smart choices that keep everyone in a state of wellness and safety. In order to help the kids grow mentally and socially, the caregiver needs to have these skills as well and use creative methods. These methods will teach the minors kindness, how to make smart decisions, be positive about themselves and use nice and proper language with others

There were several people involved in this study. The licensed psychologists and counseling psychology doctorate student both conducted the intakes and provided the parenting training. The developmental- behavioral pediatrician provided the consultation and the director of Kentucky Telecare provided the technology and resources. Throughout the studied they determined that the 8 week

A Marschak Interaction Method Behavior Rating System may be useful here, for the current caretaker and child, if there is a trained clinician available to observe the mother-child dyad and complete the assessment. It has been observed that high parental stress may inhibit ideal parent-child interactions as well (McKay, Pickens, & Stewart, 1996) and because of this the clinician may want to provide an assessment to the parent(s) that evaluates this such as the Parenting Stress

Using data collected from caregiver assessments and observations, provide needed psychoeducation for caregivers (topics may include positive parenting and appropriate consequences, strategies to increase parental sensitive and responsive to child’s needs, empathy building, consistency of parenting between parents, modelling of appropriate behaviour, and effective community)

Specifically, they examined the results of FAs when implemented by therapists and FAs implemented by caregivers. The caregivers were taught the procedures and then performed the FAs with close supervision from the experimenters. Results indicated that the function of the behavior depended upon which person implemented the FA. The authors proposed that this result may be due to the fact that caregivers have most likely been paired with various consequences in the past that may affect the rate of responding. The important piece in this literature is that the caregivers implemented the procedure as taught to them. It seems logical to believe that if caregivers were able to be taught the procedure then teachers could be trained in the FA procedures. This suggests that with supervision and appropriate training that FA procedures could be used in the school setting but would likely require a great deal of

Farmer, C., Lecavalier, L., Yu, S., Eugene Arnold, L., McDougle, C. J., Scahill, L., … Aman, M. G. (2011). Predictors and moderators of parent training efficacy in a sample of children with autism spectrum disorders and serious behavioral problems. J Autism Dev Disord, 42(6), 1037-1044. doi:10.1007/s10803-011-1338-2

Prior to treatment with the author, he had been involved in treatment with a speech language pathologist, an occupational therapist, and four different Board Certified Behavior Analysts who provided applied behavior analysis. It was reported by the parents that he was discharged from the therapists providing applied behavior analysis because they feared for their safety. A release was signed by the parents for one of the previous therapists who reported that although they did not feel safe continuing services in the home, it was due to the parents’ unwillingness to comply with the treatment plan. At the time the author was treating A Child, he was also seeing a therapist for metronome therapy, as well as the speech and occupational

In this study, the researchers represented only the number of prompts given by the caregiver and the number of removals from a setting. A visual support was implemented to both participants to decrease unwanted behavior during the transitioning from one setting to another. The researchers identified the target behavior for each participant and tracked it during baseline, intervention, and maximum transition time. The introduction of the visual supports resulted in a significant decline in the inappropriate behaviors for the two participants. The researchers felt the use of the visual supports reduced the amount of time spent between activities as well as increased independence for each