Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems
Topics List
DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS
INFANTILE COLIC AND RECURRENT ABDOMINAL PAIN (RAP)
- Behavioural interventions
- Dietary interventions
- Pharmacological interventions
- Physical interventions
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS
-Speech therapy
- Behavioural interventions
- Nursery placement
- Parent-child interaction training
DEVELOPMENT CO-ORDINATION DISORDER
- Occupational therapies
- Group-work (for mutual support and/or therapy)
NON-SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY
- Speech therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Portage
- Parent support groups
- Sibling groups
NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
- Down syndrome
- Fragile ‘X’
- General neuro-developmental
AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER
- Asperger syndrome
- Autism
PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
- Behaviour therapies
- Counselling
- Dietary interventions
- Drugs
- Educational programmes
- Family therapy
- Occupational therapies
SCREENING FOR ABNORMALITIES OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
- Interventions designed to promote optimal development
PSYCHOSOCIAL PROBLEMS
ADULT OFFENDERS, INCLUDING SEX OFFENDERS
- Drug treatments
- The behaviour therapies, including cognitive-behaviour therapies
-Therapeutic communities
-Secure hospitals
- Group work
- Probation
- Social work
- Literacy programme
- Employment training
- Problem-solving training
- Negotiation training
- Criminal justice disposals, including prison
- Surgical castration
AGGRESSION
BULLYING
ATYPICAL DEFIANCE
- Drug interventions
- Educational interventions
- Group-based interventions
- Social-learning theory-derived interventions
ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD)
- Alternative and complementary therapies
- Drug treatments
- The behavioural therapies
- Parent training
- Family therapy
ATYPICAL SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
-The behaviour therapies
- Counselling
- Family therapy
CHILD TREATMENT
- Family therapy
- The behaviour therapies
- Parent training
- Anger management
- Play therapy
- Substitute care
- Child protection procedures
- Registration of sex offenders
- Foster care
- Adoption
- Residential care, including therapeutic communities
- Special education
DELINQUENCY and SPECIFIC ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOURS, EG FIRE-SETTING, STEALING
- The behaviour therapies
- Parent training
- Therapeutic communities
- Probation
- Social Work
- Case work
- Criminal justice disposals, including prison and Intermediate Treatment
ENCOPRESIS
- Drug treatments including laxatives
- Parent training
- The behaviour therapies
ENURESIS
- Drug therapy including antidepressants
- Parent training
- Behaviour therapy (including, for example ‘bell and pad’)
FAILURE TO THRIVE
- The family therapies
- The behaviour therapies
- Substitute care
- Respite care
FEEDING PROBLEMS
- The behaviour therapies
- Parent training
- Group work
- Home visiting
- Counselling
LACK OF SELF ESTEEM
PARENT-ADOLESCENT ESTRANGEMENT
- The behaviour therapies
- Crisis intervention
- Family support
- Parent training
- Group work
- Home visiting
- Counselling
- Marital counselling
- Substitute care
PERSISTENT CRYING
- Drug therapies
- The behaviour therapies
- Parent training
- Group work
- Home visiting
- Counselling
POOR ATTACHMENT
- The behaviour therapies
- Parent training
- Group work
- Home visiting
- Counselling
PERSONALITY DISORDERS
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND DISABILITY
- Family support
- Family therapy
- Counselling
- The behaviour therapies
RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE
SCHOOL REFUSAL
- Counselling
- The behaviour therapies
- Casework
- Group work
- Special education programmes
- Judicial warnings/suspended sentences
- Criminal proceedings against parents
- Parental fine
SLEEPING PROBLEMS
- Drug therapies
- The behaviour therapies
- Parent training
- Group work
- Home visiting
- Counselling
TEMPER TANTRUMS
- Drug therapies
- The behaviour therapies
- Parent training
- Group work
- Home visiting
- Counselling
STEREOTYPIC MOVEMENT DISORDER
- Drug treatments
- Physical therapies
LEARNING PROBLEMS
EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT
- Reading programmes
- Compensatory education
- Early educational programmes, eg Portage
- Special needs provision
SPECIFIC AND GENERAL LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, EG READING PROBLEMS, POOR CONCENTRATION
- Educational programmes
SYNDROMES ASSOCIATED WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, EG DOWNS’ SYNDROME, FRAGILE ‘X’
- Nutritional supplements
- Behaviour therapies
- Counselling
- Family therapy
- Opportunity groups
- Day care programmes
- Special schools
- Effects of statementing
DYSLEXIA
- Auditory memory enhancement
- Chiropractice
- Optical treatments
- Speech and language therapies
CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR
- Dietary interventions
- Behaviour therapies
- Drugs
SEXUAL PROBLEMS
- Drugs
- Behaviour therapies
- Social skills training
- Counselling
- Education