Download or read book Moderating Effects of Hyperactivity impulsivity and Oppositional Behavior on Working Memory Training for Children and Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder written by Synthia Sandoval Puffenberger and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this study was to investigate hyperactivity/impulsivity and oppositional behaviors as potential moderators on multiple outcome measures of a computer based working memory training for children and adolescents with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) between the ages of 7 and 17. All participants involved in the study were classified as having ADHD, with either the Primarily Inattentive or Combined type. Measures of executive functioning were completed by participants and their parent's pre and post-treatment. Parents also rated participants on measures of ADHD. This study is building on previous analysis from a larger study in which it was found that participants improved on multiple measures of executive functioning regardless of the treatment arm they were randomly assigned to (Table 1). Sixty participants initiated participation in the current study, twenty-eight completed training and post-training outcomes measures. Using linear regression analysis one significant interaction for the moderator of hyperactivity/impulsivity on the relationship between treatment and the outcome measure of parent rated BRIEF Plan/Organize scale was found. No other significant interactions were found for the proposed moderators of hyperactivity/impulsivity and oppositional behavior. Due to high dropout rates, this study was underpowered, making significant interactions difficult to detect. Additional studies are needed with larger sample sizes in order to draw more conclusions related to the moderating effects of hyperactivity/impulsivity on working memory training.
Download or read book Effectiveness of Working Memory Training on Children and Adolescents Comorbid with ADHD and Other Externalizing Disorders written by Christine Happel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Working memory is a process used to momentarily store and manipulate information (Engle, 2004). Complex behaviors, such as behavioral inhibition, planning, reasoning, comprehension, and emotional regulation, are thought to be contingent on working memory ability (Barkley, 1997). Decreased working memory functioning, and therefore decreased ability in the aforementioned complex behaviors, has been found to be prevalent in individuals diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Barkley, 1997; Castellanos and Tannock, 2002; Rapport et al. 2000). Past studies, Klingberg et al (2005) and Beck et al. (2009), have found working memory training to lead to improvements in several areas of working memory functioning and to a decrease in severity of ADHD symptoms among individuals who underwent the training. However, neither study assessed the effects of working memory training on children and adolescents comorbidly diagnosed with ADHD and an externalizing disorder, such as oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder. This study assessed the effects of Cogmed working memory training on populations comorbidly diagnosed with ADHD and one other externalizing disorder. Participants, who were between 7 and 17 years old, were organized into one group of individuals diagnosed with ADHD and another group of individuals comorbidly diagnosed with ADHD and one other externalizing disorder. Groups were compared using measures of ADHD and executive functioning, which were completed both before and after receiving working memory training. When compared, groups did not display any significant difference between their increments on the majority of measures. This study is thought to broaden the efficacy of working memory training to include children and adolescents comorbidly diagnosed with ADHD and either oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder.
Download or read book Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents written by Brian P. Daly and published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State-of-the-art guidance on the effective assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with ADHD New updated edition Provides guidance on multimodal care and diversity issues Includes downloadable handouts This updated new edition of this popular text integrates the latest research and practices to give practitioners concise and readable guidance on the assessment and effective treatment of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This common childhood condition can have serious consequences for academic, emotional, social, and occupational functioning. When properly identified and diagnosed, however, there are many interventions that have established benefits. This volume is both a compact "how to" reference, for use by professionals in their daily work, and an ideal educational reference for students. It has a similar structure to other books in the Advances in Psychotherapy series, and informs the reader of all aspects involved in the assessment and management of ADHD. Practitioners will particularly appreciate new information on the best approaches to the ideal sequencing of treatments in multimodal care, and the important diversity considerations. Suggestions for further reading, support groups, and educational organizations are also provided. A companion volume Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Adults is also available.
Download or read book The Efficacy of Working Memory Training for Children and Adolescents with Attention deficit hyperactivity Disorder Combined Type Compared to Children and Adolescents with Attention deficit hyperactivity Disorder Primarily Inattentive Type written by Synthia Sandoval Puffenberger and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This study investigated the efficacy of a computer based working memory training program for 51 children and adolescence between the ages of 7 and 17. All participants involved in the study were classified as having ADHD, with either the primarily inattentive or combined type. Parents and teachers provided ratings of executive function and ADHD symptoms of participants before treatment, one month and four months following treatment. Data in this study were analyzed by ADHD subtype to better determine if any differences could be found by subtype population. At post treatment parents rated the DSM Inattentive group as improving on measures of both executive function and ADHD symptoms. Parent reported changes appeared to persist at four month follow up for this group. Teachers also reported change from pre to post treatment for the DSM Inattentive group on the BRIEF Initiate scale. There were no reported significant changes for the DSM combined group by either parent or teacher report from pre to post treatment. Regression analysis using the Conners' scales of inattention, hyperactivity, and oppositional at pre treatment as predictors for change at post treatment and four month follow up found that by parent report for the DSM Combined group, ratings of hyperactivity and opposition at pre treatment were negatively related to change post treatment. However, according to teacher report, opposition, hyperactivity, and inattention were positively related to reported change post treatment for both the Inattentive and Combined subtypes of ADHD. This data suggest that this training may be beneficial as an adjunct treatment for children with ADHD to focus on executive functioning deficits. This training may be more beneficial for those diagnosed with the Inattentive type of ADHD, possibly due to the detrimental or interfering behaviors of hyperactive and impulsive symptoms found in the Combined type population. However, more research is necessary to determine the validity of the treatment effects found, as well as if these findings are enduring. It is also necessary to determine if these findings go beyond 3rd party report and if they can also be found through objective measures of the participants, (i.e. using the Automated Working Memory Assessment or the Tower of London).
Download or read book The Efficacy of Working Memory Training as a Treatment for Children and Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder written by Christine Adelaide Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This study assessed the efficacy of a 5-week, intensive working memory training program for 52 children and adolescents (ages 7-17) who were identified as having ADHD and other co-morbid diagnoses. The study provided a replication of effects, since participants were assigned to the experimental group or waiting-list control group, with the waiting list control group completing training after the experimental group had finished. Parents and teachers completed paper and pencil measures of working memory, executive functioning, and ADHD symptoms at baseline, post-treatment, and four month follow-up. Parent ratings indicated that participants improved on inattention, overall number of ADHD symptoms, initiation, planning/organization, and working memory. These effects were maintained at a four month follow-up period. Teacher ratings did not indicate any significant results. The majority of participants did not show clinically significant or reliable changes. There is some evidence, provided by parent report, that WM may lead to improvements in ADHD symptoms, working memory, and other types of executive functioning; however, more research is needed to determine the validity of these treatment effects, whether treatment effects are maintained over longer follow-up periods, and whether the improvements that are found are clinically significant and reliable.
Download or read book A Randomized controlled Trial of Working Memory Training in Youth with ADHD written by Christine Adelaide Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The present study investigated whether working memory training (WMT) would improve working memory (WM), planning/organization, executive functioning, attention, hyperactivity/impulsivity, and reading comprehension in individuals with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Twenty-eight children and adolescents with ADHD completed WMT, which consisted of 25 sessions lasting 30-45 minutes completed over about 6 weeks. Participants were randomly assigned to either a difficult adaptive WMT program or a control program, which maintained a low-level of difficulty. We predicted that the experimental group would show greater improvements than the control group. The experimental group showed a trend towards improving more than the control group on nonverbal short-term memory (STM), one measure of verbal WM, parent-rated inattention, After WMT participants in both groups improved on verbal STM, nonverbal STM, nonverbal WM, one measure of verbal WM, parent-reported WM, a WM composite, parent-rated inattention, reading comprehension, one participant-administered measure of planning/organization, parent-rated planning/organization, and parent-rated executive functioning. Participants did not improve on one measure of verbal WM, parent-rated hyperactivity/impulsivity, and a participant-administered measure of attention, one participant-administered measure of planning/organization, and a participant-administered measure of executive functioning. There was not enough teacher-report data to come to any meaningful conclusions. This lends some support that WMT can lead to improvements in broad cognitive functions. It is unclear whether the training needs to be difficult and adaptive in order to lead to improvements. Future studies need to investigate the necessary components of WMT and whether the improvements following WMT are clinically significant, stable over time, and not just due to practice effects, rater expectancy effects, or regression to the mean. Additional replication studies are needed showing improvements in cognitive and academic functions following WMT. Future studies should investigate whether certain WMT programs lead to improvements in certain cognitive and academic functions.
Download or read book Attention Deficits and Hyperactivity in Children written by Stephen P. Hinshaw and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise, state-of-the-art synthesis of the vast amount of information related to attention deficits and hyperactivity in children. The author explores key issues such as: whether there is in fact a valid syndrome; which factors predict subsequent adolescent and adult functioning; and the most suitable assessment instruments. The volume encompasses a wide range of perspectives, including clinical, developmental, psychodiagnostic, psychobiological, environmental//familial and social cognitive.
Download or read book A Multi Modal Approach to Address ADHD written by Annie M Wells, PH D and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is organized in two main parts: general information and basic research about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders; and practical information full of psychological/behavioral and educational/learning style strategies and tips. The first part of the book provides the reader with adequate information to understand the rationale for using the techniques in the latter part. Chapters I through III provide that general and basic information, including the medical approach. Chapter I describes what the ADHD disorders are, etiological theories, DSM-IV-TR criteria, and how one makes a differential diagnosis. Chapter II acquaints parents and professionals with symptoms as early as infancy and preschool age, and what they can do when ADHD is suspected. Medical treatment is usually recommended; therefore, Chapter III deals with the medical approach and the various categories of medicines that can be used to treat the different types of ADHD. Chapters IV through V focus on the non-medical approaches. Chapter IV describes psychological/behavioral approaches to address problems of executive functions, attention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, social skills, memory and organization of time and materials. This chapter emphasizes the importance of addressing executive functions first and foremost as well as early in development to be most effective. Chapter V makes the point that learning style approaches emphasize strengths of children with ADHD rather than weaknesses; and that these children learn different. One could perceive this chapter as a handbook to use in determining which of the elements of style a child exhibits and preceding with the appropriate technique. Chapters IV and V also make the point that the non-drug approaches can yield a relatively permanent change in behavior which will take practice.
Download or read book Treatment of hyperactivity written by Manuel Ramos Ramos y Lisa McCarthy (traductora) and published by Ideaspropias Editorial S.L.. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyperactivity is a chronic disorder which accounts for almost 50% of the consultations carried out within child and adolescent psychiatry. It is also possibly one of the disorders that has generated the most attention, caused the most concern and been a subject of study for many years among educators, parents and specialists. This disorder interferes in many areas of normal functioning and is responsible for a multitude of disturbances and difficulties that seriously affect evolutionary development, schooling and the social and family life of the children and adolescents who suffer from it. In 50% to 80% of cases hyperactivity persists in adulthood. This didactic material provides an introduction to the disorder, how to diagnose, assess and treat it. It also provides various strategies and resources for dealing with the problem. Ideaspropias Editorial has published this e-book to provide parents and educators with a set of guidelines for treatment.
Download or read book Hyperactivity and Attention Disorders of Childhood written by Seija Sandberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 2002 edition, a distinguished, international team of researchers and clinicians revisit attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorders in young people.
Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder written by Tobias Banaschewski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Textbook of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is an authoritative, multi-disciplinary text covering the diagnosis, assessment and management of patients with ADHD.
Download or read book Working Memory Impairments in Children with Attention deficit Hyperactivity Disorder written by Rhonda L. Martinussen and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objectives. To examine: (a) whether children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) exhibit impairments in working memory (WM) independent of comorbidity with language learning disorders, (b) whether WM deficits are more strongly associated with symptoms of inattention than with symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity, and (c) whether WM capacity is related to performance on tasks that require controlled attention (i.e., response inhibition tasks). Method. Study 1 used meta-analytic techniques to investigate existing data on WM in children with ADHD. Study 2 examined multiple components of WM (verbal and spatial storage and central executive (C.E.)) in children diagnosed with ADHD with and without comorbid language learning problems. Study 3 examined the relations between WM, controlled attention, and behavior in a non-referred sample of school children. Results. The results of the meta-analysis indicated that children with ADHD relative to normal controls exhibit moderate weaknesses in verbal storage and verbal C.E. components of WM and large deficits in spatial storage and spatial C.E. components of WM independent of comorbidity with language learning disorders. The findings from Study 2 were mainly consistent with the meta-analysis; except that verbal storage deficits were associated with language learning problems rather than with ADHD per se. Dimensional analyses (Studies 2, 3) indicated that WM was more strongly associated with symptoms of inattention than with symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity. Moreover, in Study 3, WM was significantly associated with performance on a task indexing controlled attention (i.e., response inhibition), but was not associated with performance on tasks that require more automatic processing. Conclusions . The findings contribute to our understanding of the nature and severity of WM deficits in children with ADHD and support neuropsychological theories of ADHD. Evidence of working memory deficits in children with ADHD has important clinical implications given that working memory limitations are also strongly associated with academic underachievement. Longitudinal research is needed to address the causal relations between working memory, inattention symptoms, and academic achievement.
Download or read book Interactivity Game Creation Design Learning and Innovation written by Anthony L. Brooks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of two conferences: The 7th EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation (ArtsIT 2018), and the 3rd EAI International Conference on Design, Learning, and Innovation (DLI 2018). Both conferences were hosed in Braga, Portugal, and took place October 24-26, 2018. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 106 submissions. ArtsIT , Interactivity and Game Creation is meant to be a place where people in arts, with a keen interest in modern IT technologies, meet with people in IT, having strong ties to art in their works. The event also reflects the advances seen in the open related topics Interactivity (Interaction Design, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Robotics) and Game Creation (Gamification, Leisure Gaming, GamePlay). ArtsIT has been successfully co-located with DLI as the design, learning and innovation frame the world of IT, opening doors into an increasingly playful worlds. So the DLI conference is driven by the belief that tools, techniques and environments can spark and nature a passion for learning, transformation domains such as education, rehabilitation/therapy, work places and cultural institutions.
Download or read book The Attention Zone written by Michael W. Cohen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Management of Children and Adolescents with Attention Deficit hyperactivity Disorder written by Ronald J. Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder written by Lily Trokenberg Hechtman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive description of adult outcome in educational, occupational, emotional, social, substance use, legal, antisocial functioning is described via the best well-controlled prospective follow-up studies of children with ADHD into adulthood. Predictors of outcome, e.g., medication and psychosocial treatment, IQ, severity of ADHD, comorbidity, SES, parental pathology and family functioning are all explored. Prognosis and issues that need to be addressed to promote more positive outcome are thus addressed.
Download or read book Evaluation of a Working Memory Training Program in Adolescents with Severe Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Learning Disabilities written by Sarah Anne Gray and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working memory ability (WM), which is essential for many academic skills, has been found to predict inattentive behaviour and is a common deficit in ADHD and LD. Recent studies have suggested that WM can be improved by intensive and adaptive computerized training. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of a WM training program on WM, attention, behaviour and academics in adolescents with severe LD/ADHD. A total of 60 12 to 17 year olds with ADHD/LD were randomized to one of two computerized intervention programs: working memory training or math training, and evaluated before and at three weeks after completion. Adolescents in the WM training group showed greater improvements on some measures of WM than those in the math training group, but no training effects were observed on any other measures. Findings are discussed in the context of theoretical and practical implications of WM training.
