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32nd Annual Convention; Atlanta, GA; 2006

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Workshop #W6
CE Offered: PSY/BACB
Childhood Psychiatric Disorders & Mental Issues: Functional Assessment & Behavioral Intervention
Friday, May 26, 2006
10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Lenox
Area: DEV; Domain: Applied Research
CE Instructor: Jeannie A. Golden, Ph.D.
JEANNIE A. GOLDEN (East Carolina University), LYNN A. OLSON PAGE (Regent University)
Description: Children with developmental disabilities, children with medical issues, and children in the child welfare system often develop several of the symptoms of various childhood psychiatric disorders, such as: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, bipolar disorder and reactive attachment disorder. These symptoms can develop as the result of factors such as: separation from parents during painful and/or prolonged treatment in a hospital setting, residential placement with limited staff and/or frequent turn-over, early abuse/neglect, multiple placements and multiple caregivers. Differential diagnosis becomes a critical issue in providing appropriate treatment and services for these children and their families. However, these children are often diagnosed based on behavior exhibited in hospital settings or during office visits and based on personality assessment instruments with questionable reliability and validity for children. Additionally, the treatment focus follows the medical model with the assumption that behavioral symptoms are the result of underlying psychopathology. Behavior analysts are in a unique position to provide more comprehensive diagnosis that includes observations of behavior in a variety of settings to determine the effect of various stimulus conditions and setting events, functional assessments to determine the causes and maintainers of various behavioral symptoms, and careful analysis of learning histories to determine the efficacy of various reinforcers and punishers. Behavior analysts are also able to provide assessment-driven treatment approaches, to design therapeutic environments that support the learning of appropriate replacement behaviors and to facilitate typical development rather than psychopathology.
Learning Objectives: The participant will be able to: 1. explain the differences between the medical and behavioral approaches to the etiology, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of psychopathology and medical issues in children 2. name some of the symptoms used in the differential diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder and reactive attachment disorder 3. describe the unique learning histories of children with psychiatric disorders and medical issues and how feelings serve as establishing operations in these children 4. tell why children with this learning history often are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional-defiant disorder, and conduct disorder in different developmental stages of their lives 5. identify how the behavioral model compliments consultation models in the tertiary hospital setting and identify several strengths of using functional behavioral assessment in a hospital setting 6. name some of the antecedents, behaviors and consequences that are unique in children with psychiatric diagnoses and medical issues 7. describe how to provide assessment-driven treatment and target specific behaviors that are unique in children with psychiatric diagnoses and medical issues
Activities: Participants will listen to didactic information and real-life case histories in homes, schools and hospital settings, take notes, ask questions, view a power point presentation, present their own cases for feedback, and participate in role-play situations.
Audience: Participants would include board certified behavior analysts, psychologists, counselors, nurses, health care provides, social workers and/or teachers who serve children with developmental disabilities or children who typically-developing who have been given psychiatric diagnoses.
Content Area: Practice
Instruction Level: Intermediate

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