Study material - book

Intervention approaches: the most effective combination of psychotherapeutic and pharmacotherapeutic methods

• interventional (psychotherapeutic and sociotherapeutic) help focused on the overall personality
• interventional (psychotherapeutic, special pedagogical) help focused on individual features of the disorder, eg attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, etc.
• special therapeutic procedures - pharmacotherapy, biofeedback, diets, VTI, etc.

Intervention focused on the whole personality

• holistic approaches that optimize the whole personality include the family
• Improving school performance is a secondary product
• procedures require special training
• relaxation procedures dominate
• examples:
•   autogenous training
•   yoga exercises

Intervention focused on individual features of the disorder

• can be implemented at a professional workplace, at school or in the family
• important selection of the most severe symptoms
• often symptoms = deficits causing SLD
• eg: attention exercises - worksheets
• perception exercises (visual, auditory ...)
• memory exercises
• social integration exercises ....

Special therapeutic procedures

• pharmacotherapy - psychostimulants, such as Ritalin (increases the amount of dopamine in
• frontal lobes) “paradoxical reaction”, successful in 70-90% of children
• antidepressants (increase noradrenaline concentrations)
• neuroleptics (antipsychotics)
• physiotherapy: focus on primary and transient reflexes
• biofeedback
• diet?
• VTI - video training of interactions

Keywords:

therapy, intervention, pharmacotherapy, paradoxical reactions, biofeedback, VTI, positive and negative expectations (Pygmalion and Golem effect)