How To Handle Child Placement
How To Handle Child Placement
Presented By:
Ms. Nazia Qayyum
Coordinator Rising Sun Institute
Ms. Sana Shaukat
Head of the Section for Intellectually Impaired Students
And Community Based Rehabilitation
Importance of Child Placement
• Helps in learning professional skills related to
assessment, interevention, and counselling skills.
• Provides and opportunity to work with diverse
population of children having different special needs
which helps in building cultural competency and
understanding.
• Helps in learning to collaborate with parents, teachers,
and other professionals involved in the child's care.
• The skills and experience gained can be directly applied
to future jobs in schools, hospitals, clinics, or private
practice working with children.
Requirements for Placement
• Complete 4 case reports
• Detail knowledge about diagnostic criteria's of DSM-V-TR
• Command over testing (administration, considerations, reporting and
interpretation)
• Knowledge about intervention techniques
• Interviewing skills for taking detailed case history
• organization and time management
• Maintain confidentiality of the child's information.
• Seek regular supervision from your training supervisor to discuss cases,
receive feedback, and work accordingly
Case History
• Bio Data
• Name (initials), age, birth order and
number of siblings
• Reason or Source of Referral
• Presenting Complaints
• mention parents verbatim and duration or
age when the problem started)
• History of presenting problems
Family Hisotry
• parents qualification and age, job nature, personality and temperament.
relationship with the child
• siblings age and qualification, relationship with the child
• home environment
• history of medical / psychiatric or special needs in family
• cousin marriage
Personal History
• Birth history
• pre natal
• natal
• post natal
• History of Developmental milestones
• Medical History
• Educational History
Assessment
• Informal
• Detailed behavioral observation
• Observe in different settings
• Relate behavior observed with complaints
• Discuss how a specific behavioral complaints is
being exhibits by the child like hyperactivity,
aggressiveness, stubbornness by providing
operational definition with context to the
relevant case.
• detailed clinical interview
• subjective rating of complaints by parents or
teachers
Formal Assessment
• Knowledge about diagnostic, adaptive and intellectual assessment tools
• Must know about specific requirements of all assessment tools
• Fill all response sheets properly
Case Formulation and Case Conceptualization
• Identify 4Ps
• formulate case by discussing and relating presenting comlaints and 4Ps
idenftified with context of relevant case and support your points with
evidence based researches
• https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/biopsychosocial-case-formulation
Case
Conceptualizat
ion
Diagnosis and Prognosis