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Validity tests of the executive dysfunction hypothesis of autism
Bruce F. Pennington, Sally J. Rogers, Loisa Bennetto, Elizabeth McMahon Griffith, D. Taffy Reed, and Vivian Shyu
in Autism as an Executive Disorder
This chapter aims to examine the validity of the hypothesis that executive dysfunction is the primary psychological cause of autism. It reviews work that supports this hypothesis, defines ...
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Assessment and Intervention for Executive Dysfunction
Robert M. Roth, Peter K. Isquith, and Gerard A. Gioia
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 19 details assessment and intervention for executive dysfunction, including the neural basis of executive functions, assessment of executive dysfunction, and intervention for ...
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Self-Management and Self-Regulation
Mark R. Dixon and Autumn McKeel
in Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Recent Advances and Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Intervention
This chapter clarifies the ambiguity surrounding the term self-management, provides a behaviour analytic conceptualization, and implications for treatment strategy. Priority concerns ...
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Executive Functions in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Yael Dai and Inge-Marie Eigsti
in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Clinical Handbook
This chapter reviews strengths and weaknesses in executive function (EF) domains, including inhibition, working memory, flexibility, fluency, and planning, in adolescents (age 13–19) with ...
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Towards an executive dysfunction account of repetitive behaviour in autism
Michelle Turner
in Autism as an Executive Disorder
This chapter explores an executive dysfunction account of repetitive behaviour in autism. It defines repetitive behaviour and the phenomenology of repetitive behaviour in autism, considers ...
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Behavioral and Psychophysiological Investigations of Irritability
Mariah DeSerisy and Christen M. Deveney
in Irritability in Pediatric Psychopathology
A better understanding of neurocognitive mechanisms underlying irritability has the potential to inform treatments and improve quality of life for the children for whom this symptom is ...
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Session 3: Do the Most Important Thing First!
Susan E. Sprich and Steven A. Safren
in Overcoming ADHD in Adolescence: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach, Client Workbook
This chapter is devoted to teaching the adolescent how to manage multiple tasks without becoming distracted or overwhelmed. This chapter describes how to decide on effective calendar and ...
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Session 3: Do The Most Important Things First!
Susan E. Sprich and Steven A. Safren
in Overcoming ADHD in Adolescence: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach, Therapist Guide
Client behaviors serve as signposts of change, showing that the therapy is on track and progressing well. If your client is not exhibiting these behaviors, discuss and conduct ...
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Autism as an Executive Disorder
James Russell (ed.)
Autism continues to fascinate researchers because it is both debilitating in its effects and complex in its nature and origins. The prevalent theory is that autism is primarily ...
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Emotion Regulation and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Blossom Fernandes, Roseann Tan-Mansukhani, and Cecilia A. Essau
in Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents
Chapter 6 describes emotion dysregulation features which are associated with children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In ADHD adaptive emotion ...
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Handbook of Frontal Lobe Assessment
Sarah E. MacPherson, Sergio Della Sala, Simon R. Cox, Alessandra Girardi, and Matthew H. Iveson
Several tests are used in clinical practice and research to assess the functions subsumed by the frontal lobes of the brain. Improvements in anatomical localization through neuroimaging ...
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Introduction: Fractionating the frontal lobe syndrome
Sarah E. MacPherson, Sergio Della Sala, Simon R. Cox, Alessandra Girardi, and Matthew H. Iveson
in Handbook of Frontal Lobe Assessment
Evidence from lesion and neuroimaging studies suggests that the frontal lobes can be fractionated into different frontal subregions with distinct functional domains. Some of the evidence to ...
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Adult ADHD Symptoms
Jan Willer
in Could it be Adult ADHD?: A Clinician's Guide to Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment
Understanding the symptoms of adult ADHD is an essential starting place. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders symptoms of ADHD are reviewed, including ...
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Session 9: Learning About Emotion Development
Elizabeth A. Harvey, Sharonne D. Herbert, and Rebecca M. Stowe
in Parenting Hyperactive Preschoolers: Clinician Guide
This chapter outlines session 9 of Parenting Hyperactive Preschoolers. Group leaders provide families with psychoeducation about emotion competence in young children who are hyperactive. ...
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The Evolved Mind
Marco Del Giudice
in Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
The chapter introduces key ideas from evolutionary psychology, including the concept of psychological mechanisms as functionally specialized adaptations. The chapter then examines three ...
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Overcoming ADHD in Adolescence: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach, Client Workbook
Susan Sprich and Steven A. Safren
This Client Workbook is an accompaniment to the Therapist Guide, Overcoming ADHD in Adolescence: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach. The treatment and manuals are designed for clients to ...
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Overcoming ADHD in Adolescence: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach, Therapist Guide
Susan Sprich and Steven A. Safren
This Therapist Guide is accompanied by a Client Workbook entitled, Overcoming ADHD in Adolescence: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach. The treatment and manuals are designed for clients to ...
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Module 3: Maintaining a Consistent Schedule and Time Management
Andrea Chronis-Tuscano, Kelly O’Brien, and Christina M. Danko
in Supporting Caregivers of Children with ADHD: An Integrated Parenting Program, Therapist Guide
In Module 3, parents learn to develop and maintain a consistent household schedule and daily routines for their child and themselves. All children benefit from consistency, but children ...
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Data Collection
David M. Corey and Mark Zelig
in Evaluations of Police Suitability and Fitness for Duty
This chapter describes the procedures commonly followed in suitability and fitness evaluations, with a particular focus on the collection of data from three sources routinely required for ...
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