Area: Psicologia - Neuropsicologia do Desenvolvimento 

Leccionação: Prof.sas Tuija Aro e Marja-Leena Laakso
- University of Jyvaskyla, Finlândia

Numerus clausus: 30 

Matricula/inscrição até ao dia 14/09/2007 

Duração do curso: 17-20/09/2007
Taxa de participação: 40 euros

1. day: Understanding attention and attention deficit disorders (Tuija Aro)

· Introduction to attention
· Development of self-regulation
· Diagnosis of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
· Developmental course, comorbidity, and etiology
· Assessing attention deficits 
· Different approaches to understanding ADHD

About 5 x 45 minutes

2. day: Introduction to treatment approaches (Tuija Aro)

· Medical treatment of ADHD
· Cognitive treatment
· Behavioral treatment
· Family interventions

About 5 x 45 minutes

3. day: Family support interventions (Marja-Leena Laakso)

· Child?s overactivity and challenging behaviour from the perspective of the family
· Rationale of the family interventions
· Jyväskylä Family School - Goals and methods
· Preliminary results from Jyväskylä Family School program

About 5 x 45 minutes

Outside the course as Erasmus visiting lecture

4. day: Child?s prelinguistic communication and  parent-child interaction (Marja-Leena Laakso)

· Rationale of studing child?s prelinguistic communication
· Essential features of prelinguistic communication
· Associations of prelinguistic communication child?s social-emotional development and parent-child interaction
· Risk indexes in prelinguistic communication

About 3 x 45 minutes

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