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Can developmental cognitive neuroscience inform intervention for social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD)?

Frederickson, N; Jones, AP; Warren, L; Deakes, T; Allen, G; (2013) Can developmental cognitive neuroscience inform intervention for social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD)? Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties , 18 (2) pp. 135-154. 10.1080/13632752.2012.757097. Green open access

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Abstract

An initial evaluation of the utility of designing an intervention to address neuroscience-based subtyping of children who have conduct problems was undertaken in this pilot study. Drawing on the literature on callous–unemotional traits, a novel intervention programme, ‘Let's Get Smart’, was implemented in a school for children with social emotional and behavioural difficulties. A mixed-methods design was used to investigate the perspectives of staff participant-observers in the change process, alongside standardised scores on measures of pupil performance and behaviour. Both qualitative and quantitative results showed reductions in externalising behaviour and improvements in measures of hypothesised underlying cognitive and affective processes. While externalising behaviour improved across subtypes, associated changes in underlying processes differed by subtype, supporting the potential value of neuroscience-informed contributions to intervention planning.

Type: Article
Title: Can developmental cognitive neuroscience inform intervention for social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD)?
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/13632752.2012.757097
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632752.2012.757097
Language: English
Additional information: © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1388847
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