Practitioner Report – Conceptualising Motor Development: Issues and Implications for Practitioners

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
Steve Hay
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Motor Development ◽  
Evaluation Tools ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Developmental Characteristics

ABSTRACTHow practitioners conceptualise motor development has important implications for clinical practice, including the framing of the cycle of assessment, prioritisation, intervention, and reassessment. The flexibility and inclusiveness of these frameworks effectively determines what kind of questions are able to be asked concerning the developmental characteristics of children, the kinds of assessment and evaluation tools used to evaluate those characteristics, and the understandings of the processes of motor development that ultimately derive from those investigations.

The Significance of the Problem

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
David J. Kolko ◽  
Eric M. Vernberg
Keyword(s):  
Family Characteristics ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Evaluation Tools ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Current State

This introductory chapter describes the elements that will be covered in this book. It introduces child firesetting as a national problem, responsible for significant individual and societal consequences. It elaborates on rates of firesetting in juveniles and describes the characteristics of children who play with fire, as well as family characteristics and correlates. The chapter cites the need for assessment and evaluation tools, emphasizing that assessment should be tailored to the population and the context in which the problem is documented and managed. The current state of interventions and treatment is discussed, including surveys of community-based intervention programs. Recidivism is covered, citing statistics from various surveys. The chapter concludes with an overview of this clinical guide.

Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with Looked-After Children and Young People

Dramatherapy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Moore ◽  
Madeline Andersen-Warren ◽  
Kate Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Evaluation Tools ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Client Group ◽  
Looked After Children

This paper provides the results of a questionnaire constructed to solicit information about the creative structures that dramatherapists and psychodramatists are using in therapy with Looked-After children (LAC) and young people. After a brief account of the research itself the results are presented; this starts by defining the assessment and evaluation tools that are used by the practitioners. The particular needs of this client group are examined and what follows is the analysis and explanation of the creative ways in which the practitioners meet the needs of LAC and young people.

Motor Development of Infants Subject to Maternal Drug Use: Current Evidence and Future Research Strategies

1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryant J. Cratty
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Motor Development ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Maternal Drug Use ◽  
Developmental Characteristics ◽  
New Research ◽  
Developmental Significance

Literature alludes to tremulousness, hypertonicity, and hypotonicity as well as other signs of atypical motor development in infants exposed prenatally to cocaine and other drugs. Some have hypothesized that movement aberrations brought about by exposure to abusive substances during the prenatal period have developmental significance. The pervasive nature of the problem, together with the unique developmental characteristics that present themselves, suggest the need for innovative research and new assessment tools. This paper reviews the available evidence and suggests new research strategies together with innovative evaluative instruments compatible with the characteristics of neonates, infants, and children stressed prenatally with noxious biochemical environments produced by maternal drug use. Neurological implications for the appearance and disappearance of abnormal movement characteristics are also contained in the review.

scholarly journals Are Models of Disability Useful in Real Cases? Pediatric Case Examples Realized in Research, Clinical Practice, and Education

2006 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 881-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzann K Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Motor Development ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Medical Rehabilitation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Pediatric Case ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Models Of Disability

Abstract Conceptual models are useful devices for organizing complex material and examining interrelationships among variables. For example, speakers at the 1990 II STEP Conference presented a systems model of motor control, the dynamical systems model as used in studying infant motor development, and the World Health Organization model as a systematic approach to the description of impairments, functional limitations, and disability. The purpose of this perspective is to provide examples of the usefulness of models of disability in organizing research, educational materials, and measurement in clinical practice. The disability model of the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research was used: (1) to design a measurement strategy for assessing effects of spasticity reduction in a child with cerebral palsy, (2) to develop a new assessment of functional motor performance in infants, and (3) as the conceptual framework for a comprehensive reference book for the practice of pediatric physical therapy (the current edition has been reformatted to conform to the International Classification of Function, Disability and Health). Similar models of the dimensions of disability have guided extensive development of tests designed by physical therapists for assessing function and quality of life in children with neurologic conditions. [Campbell SK. Are models of disability useful in real cases? Pediatric case examples realized in research, clinical practice, and education.Phys Ther. 2006;86:881 – 887.]

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