Sentences with phrase «social skill deficits as»

The DSM - IV mentions low self - esteem, demoralization, and social skill deficits as associated with learning disorders.

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Just as DiCostanzo and Sherry have built their bikes to accommodate older bodies, they have also built Pedego to accommodate skill deficits — chiefly in technology and social media — among some of their dealers.

«This could mean that girls who meet the same clinical criteria as boys actually are more severely affected by ongoing social and adaptive skill deficits that we don't capture in current clinical measures, and that autistic girls, in general, may be camouflaging these types of autism deficits during direct assessments.»

The research could even have the potential to help researchers better understand human disabilities, such as autism, that may involve deficits in social skills, MacLean said.

Rehabilitation Services are provided for clients to work on developing skills that they have deficits in, such as anger management, hygiene, patience, and social skills.

Sadeh and Gruber (2002) report outcomes such as reduced educational attainment, inability to concentrate and deficits in social skills in adolescents under stress who have disturbed sleep.

For example, there is at least some evidence to suggest that certain forms of anxiety (i.e., social anxiety) might be more strongly associated with social skills deficits than others (i.e., generalized anxiety).36, 37 As well, there has been little research explicitly exploring the role peers might play in early intervention programs designed to assist young anxious and depressive children.

As a result, they tend to spend more time onlooking (watching other children without joining) and hovering on the edge of social groups.8, 11 There is some evidence to suggest that young depressive children also experience social impairment.12 For example, children who display greater depressive symptoms are more likely to be rejected by peers.10 Moreover, deficits in social skills (e.g., social participation, leadership) and peer victimization predict depressive symptoms in childhood.13, 14 There is also substantial longitudinal evidence linking social withdrawal in childhood with the later development of more significant internalizing problems.15, 16,17 For example, Katz and colleagues18 followed over 700 children from early childhood to young adulthood and described a pathway linking social withdrawal at age 5 years — to social difficulties with peers at age 15 years — to diagnoses of depression at age 20 years.

As well, both anxious and depressive young children demonstrate deficits in social skills (e.g., making eye contact, initiating conversational requests) that may further impede their abilities to participate in peer activities.8, 9,10

These problems include attention deficit disorder; externalizing problems such as aggression, anger, conduct disorder, cruelty to animals, destructiveness, oppositional behavior and noncompliance, and drug and alcohol use; internalizing problems such as anxiety, depression, excessive clinging, fears, shyness, low self - esteem, passivity and withdrawal, self - blame, sadness, and suicidal tendencies; symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder such as flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety and hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, numbing of affect, and guilt; separation anxiety; social behavior and competence problems such as poor problem - solving skills, low empathy, deficits in social skills, acceptance, and perpetration of violence in relationships; school problems such as poor academic performance, poor conduct, and truancy; somatic problems such as headaches, bedwetting, insomnia, and ulcers; and obsessive - compulsive disorder and other assorted temperamental difficulties.

With discussion of integrative play treatment of children presenting a wide variety of problems and disorders — including aggression issues, the effects of trauma, ADHD, anxiety, obsessive - compulsive disorders, social skills deficits, medical issues such as HIV / AIDS, and more — the book provides guidance on:

Given the additional disability and common co-occurrence of anxiety in ASD, we developed a manual - based cognitive - behavioral treatment program to target anxiety symptoms as well as social skill deficits in adolescents with ASD [Multimodal Anxiety and Social Skills Intervention: Msocial skill deficits in adolescents with ASD [Multimodal Anxiety and Social Skills Intervention: MSocial Skills Intervention: MASSI].

The Social Communication Disorders Checklist (SCDC [43]-RRB- is a one - dimensional 12 - item scale for measuring social cognition as manifested in social and communication deficits in social reciprocity, non-verbal skills and pragmatic language Social Communication Disorders Checklist (SCDC [43]-RRB- is a one - dimensional 12 - item scale for measuring social cognition as manifested in social and communication deficits in social reciprocity, non-verbal skills and pragmatic language social cognition as manifested in social and communication deficits in social reciprocity, non-verbal skills and pragmatic language social and communication deficits in social reciprocity, non-verbal skills and pragmatic language social reciprocity, non-verbal skills and pragmatic language usage.

Attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic, debilitating disorder which may impact upon many aspects of an individual's life, including academic difficulties, 1 social skills problems, 2 and strained parent - child relationships.3 Whereas it was previously thought that children eventually outgrow ADHD, recent studies suggest that 30 — 60 % of affected individuals continue to show significant symptoms of the disorder into adulthood.4 Children with the disorder are at greater risk for longer term negative outcomes, such as lower educational and employment attainment.5 A vital consideration in the effective treatment of ADHD is how the disorder affects the daily lives of children, young people, and their families.

As expected, the ASD group displayed lower levels of social skills and social competence but higher levels of social problems and social anxiety as compared to the clinical and non-clinical control groups, which is hardly surprising given that deficits in social functioning are one of the defining features of autism spectrum problems [8, 9As expected, the ASD group displayed lower levels of social skills and social competence but higher levels of social problems and social anxiety as compared to the clinical and non-clinical control groups, which is hardly surprising given that deficits in social functioning are one of the defining features of autism spectrum problems [8, 9as compared to the clinical and non-clinical control groups, which is hardly surprising given that deficits in social functioning are one of the defining features of autism spectrum problems [8, 9].

One factor limiting a positive peer response is that negative reputations develop quickly within peer groups and, once established, are hard to dispel.37 Such reputations are used to defend ongoing exclusion or victimization of rejected children, even if the behaviors that initially led to rejection are no longer present.20 In addition, negative reputations often become self - fulfilling prophecies as rejected children with both social skill deficits and behavioral problems get caught in «a downward [spiral]» 38 (p385).