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Anticipatory guidance for classroom conduct and learning problems
Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics : JDBP
|September 1, 1980
Insights
Physician guidance during critical junctures can help children with incurable developmental delays. This support can prevent long-lasting learning and conduct problems, benefiting the child and family.
Area of Science:
- Developmental Pediatrics
- Child Psychology
- Family Medicine
Background:
- Developmental delays often lead to persistent learning and conduct issues in children.
- Current medical interventions cannot cure these long-lasting developmental disorders.
Purpose of the Study:
- To highlight the importance of physician guidance in managing developmental delays.
- To identify critical junctures for intervention in children's developmental trajectories.
Main Methods:
- Review of the natural history of developmental disorders.
- Analysis of physician's role in providing anticipatory guidance.
Main Results:
- Developmental disorders present predictable critical junctures.
- Timely physician guidance can mitigate negative secondary effects.
Conclusions:
- Anticipatory guidance by physicians is crucial at specific developmental stages.
- Intervention can positively influence child personality development and family dynamics.
Abstract:
Many children have learning and conduct problems due to developmental delays that are long lasting and cannot at present be cured. Within the natural history of these disorders a series of critical junctures normally arises. Informed anticipatory guidance by the physician at those times can forestall serious negative secondary effects on the child's personality development and on the family dynamics.