Training with attention-deficient children

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The training with attention disturbed children is a cognitive - behavioral -based therapy program for the treatment of symptoms of attention deficit disorder in children (6-10 years). The training was developed by the psychologists GW Lauth and PF Schlottke and first published as a book in 1993. Since then, the training has been revised six times.

The therapy program is divided into 2 parts: the basic training (13 sessions, 60 minutes each) and the strategy training (12 sessions, 60 minutes each). It is carried out in small groups (up to 3 children maximum). The focus here is on improving essential functional limitations - i.e. basic skills for attentiveness such as looking / observing closely, as well as special strategies for directing attention. The basic training focuses on improving self-regulation skills, while the strategy training focuses on improving behavioral organization.

In order to do justice to an integrative conditional model of attention disorder, the intervention program also includes cooperation with the most important caregivers, parents, educators and teachers.

The training was designed to be carried out by specialists from the psychosocial field and most often carried out by occupational or psychotherapists. The therapeutic techniques are largely based on behavioral principles: concrete exercises, self-instruction and homework.

The training with attention disturbed children was evaluated several times. The majority of the studies achieved medium effect sizes. Especially when working with individual children and parents or teachers are intensively involved. The training also changes neurophysiological parameters that are associated with alertness and selective concentration. In another study, it was only effective in immigrant children. When carried out under less favorable field conditions (e.g. large groups, shortened meeting times, limited parental work) - it did not lead to success.

literature

  • Gerhard W. Lauth , Peter F. Schlottke: Training with attention-deficient children . 6th completely revised edition. Psychologie Verlags Union, Weinheim 2009.
  • M. Beck & A. Mock (1995): Promoting attention in schools . In: Curative Education Research, No. 21, pp. 180–185.
  • T. Dreisörner (2006): Effectiveness of behavioral group programs in children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) . In: Childhood and Development, No. 15, pp. 255–266.
  • Gerhard W. Lauth, Kerstin Naumann , A. Roggenkämper & A. Heine (1996): Behavioral medical indication and evaluation of a cognitive-behavioral therapy with attention-disturbed / hyperactive children . In: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, No. 24, pp. 164–175.
  • Gerhard W. Lauth, S. Freese (2003): Effect of a school-based treatment of ADHD in the assessment of teachers and parents - a single case study on four children . In: Curative Education Research, No. 24, pp. 2–8.
  • Gerhard W. Lauth, C. Fellner (2004): Course of therapy and long-term effect of a multimodal therapy program for attention deficit / hyperactivity disorders - evaluation via differentiated individual case research . In: Childhood and Development, No. 13, pp. 167–179.
  • Gerhard W. Lauth, T. Kausch, Peter F. Schlottke (2005): Effects of a parent- and child-centered intervention in hyperkinetic disorders . In: Journal for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, No. 34, pp. 248-257.
  • F. Linderkamp (2002): Catamnestic investigation into self-instruction training with children with disturbed attention . In: Behavioral Therapy & Behavioral Medicine , No. 23, pp. 53–73.
  • K. Naumann (2000): Catamnestic investigation of a cognitive-behavioral therapy program for attention-disturbed / hyperactive children - one to two-year follow-up . Unpublished dissertation. University of Tübingen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lauth / Fellner (2004): Course of therapy and long-term effect of a multimodal therapy program ... See #Literature .
  2. ↑ Lauth / Naumann / Roggenkämper / Heine 1996. See #Literature .
  3. ↑ Beck / Mock (1995): Promoting attention in schools . See #literature .
  4. ↑ Dreisörner (2006): Effectiveness of behavioral group programs … . See #literature .

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