SOCI 3410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dysfunctional Family, Intellectual Disability, Structural Inequality
2 Aug 2016
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High anti social, low social economical levels, dysfunctional families and academic difficulty-risk factors. Criminal activity is learned during a child"s development. Research indicates that interventions with you children and parents have positive effects on: poor parenting, cognitive deficits and socially disruptive behaviour. Parental training and skill building during prenatal, post-birth and during first year are important. The longer the interventions the more lasting the effects are. Profound mental retardation with minimal functioning to mild impairment in specific operations. Ex: learning disabilities, language disorders, hyper activity, adhd. Need to help children on how to cope with disease. Two types of prevention: preventing the disease from ever happening and helping children cope with the disease. Intervention includes: day care, special learning, social skills training, medication, parent education. Complementary intervention: pre and post birth parent training to foster better caring behaviour + specialized day care program.
