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• • Efficacy of Cognitive Therapy on the Management of Psychological Distress among Adolescents with Hearing Impairment in Oyo State

  • This study investigated the efficacy of Cognitive Therapy (CT) on the management
    of Psychological Distress (PD) among adolescents with hearing
    impairment in Oyo State. The pretest-posttest control group, quasi experimental
    research design was employed. A total of 53 adolescents with hearing
    impairment from three integrated secondary schools in two senatorial districts
    of Oyo State were purposively selected for the study. Kesler Psychological
    Distress Scale with the index score of 19 and above was the screening
    tool used to determine the adolescents with PD. Participants were randomly
    assigned to CT (31) and control (22) groups. The treatment lasted 10 weeks.
    Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (r=0.71), Rosenberg Self-esteem,
    Rating (r=0.58) and Kesler Psychological Distress (r=0.63) scales were used
    for data collection. Data collected were analysed using Analysis of Covariance
    and Bonferronni post-hoc test at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed
    that participants in the CT group managed their PD better than those in the
    control group. Participants with high self-esteem benefitted from the treatment
    than those with moderate and low self-esteem. Based on these findings,
    special educators, counselling and clinical psychologists and social workers
    are advised to use the therapy to manage psychological distress among adolescents
    with hearing impairment.

• • Instructing Parents to Deliver Discrete Trial Teaching to Their Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Korea

  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects a parent training program
    in Korea using the Teacher Performance Rate Accuracy Scale (TPRA)
    during training and video self-monitoring on the rates of accurate discrete
    trial Teaching (DTT) and children’s correct responses. The study was conducted
    in an early intensive behavior intervention (EIBI) program of a public
    children’s hospital in Korea. Two mothers who had children enrolled in the
    EIBI services participated in the study. A delayed multiple baseline across
    participants design was used. The training program consisted of individual
    coaching with therapist-conducted TPRAs and group instruction on parent
    self-monitoring using TPRA for self-evaluations. Results indicated that
    each parent’s average rates of accurate DTT presentations increased and the
    rates of error presentation decreased after the intervention. As a result, their
    children’s average percentage of correct responses increased during intervention
    and maintained after intervention. Results of this study suggest that this
    training program is promising and has potential for a large-scale implication
    in Korea.