AIMS The aim of this study was to examine whether non-verbal therapies are effective in treating depressive symptoms in psychotic disorders. MATERIAL AND METHODS A systematic literature search was performed in PubMed, Psychinfo, Picarta, Embase and ISI Web of Science, up to January 2015. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing a non-verbal intervention to a control condition in patients...

asd or autism spectrum diorders are the most strange psychological disorders in which children can’t show their emotions, fears and anxiety as soon as the normal children. they suffer from the social interactions , the stereotypic behaviors and verbal skills impairments and these problems can lead to withdrawal and other behavioral problems. among the psychological strategies, art therapy is on...

We tested the effect of Auditory-Motor Mapping Training (AMMT), a novel, intonation-based treatment for spoken language originally developed for minimally verbal (MV) children with autism, on a more-verbal child with autism. We compared this child's performance after 25 therapy sessions with that of: (1) a child matched on age, autism severity, and expressive language level who received 25 sess...

The authors argue against a purely behavioral definition of praise as verbal reinforcement in favor of the view that praise may serve to undermine, enhance, or have no effect on children's intrinsic motivation, depending on a set of conceptual variables. Provided that praise is perceived as sincere, it is particularly beneficial to motivation when it encourages performance attributions to contr...

Mand training is an essential component of verbal behavior training for any individual who lacks this skill. The current study replicates and extends, with some procedural differences, the work of Hall and Sundberg (1987) by using an interrupted chain procedure to teach mands for missing items to children with autism. The participants were 3 children with autism, ranging between 5 and 8 years o...

Promotiecommissie Promotor: Contents 1 General introduction 1 2 Linguistic deficits in the acute phase of stroke 13 3 The impact of linguistic deficits on verbal communication 27 4 Effects of semantic treatment on verbal communication and linguistic processing in aphasia after stroke: a randomised controlled trial 41 5 Cues on request: the efficacy of Multicue, a computer program for wordfindin...

The present study focuses on juvenile delinquents' perception of two procedures used in group therapy. Eleven juvenile delinquents, participants of a probation program, were asked to share their experience with group therapy. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the interviews with the participants, the specifics of verbal and action procedures were examined. Verbal procedures offe...