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Understanding how behaviour therapists use autism spectrum disorder diagnostic information for intervention planning

Understanding how behaviour therapists incorporate diagnostic assessments into their intervention planning can help to streamline assessment procedures and facilitate communication. The objectives are to identify what information from the diagnostic assessment is received by behaviour therapists and...

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Autores principales: Caven, Isabelle, Nguyen, Claire, Wiegelmann, Justine, Laframboise, Erica, Penner, Melanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10564585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37822797
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1242748
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author Caven, Isabelle
Nguyen, Claire
Wiegelmann, Justine
Laframboise, Erica
Penner, Melanie
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description Understanding how behaviour therapists incorporate diagnostic assessments into their intervention planning can help to streamline assessment procedures and facilitate communication. The objectives are to identify what information from the diagnostic assessment is received by behaviour therapists and which assessment elements are most important and relevant for treatment planning. Behaviour therapists, identified through Ontario registries, were surveyed about their use of diagnostic information in treatment planning. Seventy-one behaviour therapists completed the survey (response rate = 35.5%). The diagnostic information most frequently received by respondents included brief (69%) and detailed (49.2%) physician/psychologist report, speech/language assessment report (52.1%) and individualised education plan (50.7%). Most respondents indicated that information from the physician/psychologist report is often out-dated (74.6% Agree/Strongly Agree). There was variable agreement that the information in the diagnostic package influences the type and quantity of treatment. These findings demonstrate that while diagnostic assessments received by behaviour therapists are important to their planning, other independently obtained sources of information, such as client interviews, are relatively more important to this process. The diagnostic assessment is one tool to inform treatment planning; however, up-to-date information about the child’s needs is likely to be more informative.
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spelling pubmed-105645852023-10-11 Understanding how behaviour therapists use autism spectrum disorder diagnostic information for intervention planning Caven, Isabelle Nguyen, Claire Wiegelmann, Justine Laframboise, Erica Penner, Melanie Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Understanding how behaviour therapists incorporate diagnostic assessments into their intervention planning can help to streamline assessment procedures and facilitate communication. The objectives are to identify what information from the diagnostic assessment is received by behaviour therapists and which assessment elements are most important and relevant for treatment planning. Behaviour therapists, identified through Ontario registries, were surveyed about their use of diagnostic information in treatment planning. Seventy-one behaviour therapists completed the survey (response rate = 35.5%). The diagnostic information most frequently received by respondents included brief (69%) and detailed (49.2%) physician/psychologist report, speech/language assessment report (52.1%) and individualised education plan (50.7%). Most respondents indicated that information from the physician/psychologist report is often out-dated (74.6% Agree/Strongly Agree). There was variable agreement that the information in the diagnostic package influences the type and quantity of treatment. These findings demonstrate that while diagnostic assessments received by behaviour therapists are important to their planning, other independently obtained sources of information, such as client interviews, are relatively more important to this process. The diagnostic assessment is one tool to inform treatment planning; however, up-to-date information about the child’s needs is likely to be more informative. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10564585/ /pubmed/37822797 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1242748 Text en Copyright © 2023 Caven, Nguyen, Wiegelmann, Laframboise and Penner. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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