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Development of the WHO Caregiver Skills Training Program for Developmental Disorders or Delays
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol 10 (2019), Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2019.
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Abstract
- Globally, 52.9 million children under the age of 5 experience a developmental disability, such as sensory impairment, intellectual disability, and autism spectrum disorders. Of these 95% live in low-and-middle-income countries. Most of these children lack access to care. In light of the growing evidence that caregivers can learn skills to support their children’s social communication and adaptive behavior and to reduce their challenging behavior, the World Health Organization developed a novel Caregiver Skills Training Program (CST) for families of children with developmental disorders or delay to address such treatment gap. This report outlines the development process, content, and global field-testing strategy of the WHO CST program. The CST program is designed to be feasible, scalable, and adaptable and appropriate for implementation in low-resource settings by nonspecialists. The program was informed by an evidence review utilizing a common elements approach and was developed through extensive stakeholder consultation and an iterative revision process. The program is intended for a global audience and was designed to be adapted to the cultural, socioeconomic, geographic, and resource context in which it is used to ensure that it is comprehensible, acceptable, feasible, and relevant to target users. It is currently undergoing field-testing in more than 30 countries across all world regions.
- Subjects :
- parent-mediated
Process (engineering)
lcsh:RC435-571
Context (language use)
03 medical and health sciences
Skills training
0302 clinical medicine
Resource (project management)
lcsh:Psychiatry
Intellectual disability
medicine
Socioeconomic status
Psychiatry
Adaptive behavior
Medical education
Brief Research Report
medicine.disease
neurodevelopmental disorder
030227 psychiatry
developmental delay
Psychiatry and Mental health
caregiver skills training
disability
Autism
nurturing care
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol 10 (2019), Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....206c895f159c2d2c7e3a387d673e5d4c