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Name D.A
Age 6-year-old
Sex Male
No. of siblings 3
Birth order second
Religion Islam
Family System Nuclear
Institute initials S.S.S
Source and Reason for Referral
The client’s parents brought him to the institute and he was referred to a trainee
clinical psychologist by his school teacher. The reason of referral as such behaviors like
piercing, lack ofsocialization, lack of eye contact, aggressive behavior, tongue rolling and
tapping.
Table 1.1
Presenting complaints reported by parents
دورانیہ ٰؑمسائل
سال3تقریبا باتعں کی طرف دھیان نہیں دیتا
سال2 تقریبا بہت جلدی غصہ میں آجاتا ہے
سال3 تقریبا ایک جگہ ٹک کر نہیں بیٹھتا
سال5تقریب کہنا نہیں مانتا باتعں کو سمجھ نہیں پاتا
Table 1.2
ٰٰٰٰٰٰٰٰٰؑؑؑؑؑؑؑؑؑPresenting complaints reported by teacher
دورانیہ ٰؑمسائل
ماہ3تقریبا بات نہیں مانتا جماعت میں نہیں بیٹھتا
ماہ2 تقریبا بھت چیحتا چالتاھے
ماہ3 تقریبا کام کی طرف دھیان نہیں دیتا
Initial Observation
The child was 6 years old boy. He was dressed neatly and his hair was combed.
Overall hygiene was maintained. He had no eye contact. His mood was normal and he
seems energetic. He had no orientation. The child was observed in multiple settings,
such as classroom and lunch time and it was non participant observation, during class
child was sitting on chair uncomfortably. He was tapping and moving on his chair. The
child was not done his work properly. When trainee clinical psychologist invited him
for session he followed her and Rapport building with child was not an easy task. His
language and speech was not developed properly .During session it was observed that
he become frustrated so easily. It was also observed that his fine and gross motor skills
are also not developed properly as he cannot hold pencil properly. Observation also
made inplay ground and it was observe that he was not socialized. He likes to play
alone with alone with football it seems that he was happy in playground.
Background Information
Family History
The client belonged to a middle-class family and was living in a nuclear
family system. Client was living with his mother, and 2 siblings. Parents reported that
the environment ofthe home is good and peaceful.
Father. The client’s father was 43-year-old. He has done matriculation. He was working in
Dubai. Therelationship of client with her father was good and strong. The client’s father
was a soft-hearted man.
Mother. Client’s mother was 37-year-old. She was a housewife. The relationship between
the client andhis mother was satisfactory. The mother spends more time with the client’s
younger siblings. The clients’ parents were cousins.
Siblings. The client has two siblings, one brother of age 3 and one sister of age 2 years. The
interaction ofthe client with siblings was rare. The client has no interest in playing with
siblings. There was no interactive relationship between the client and his siblings.
Personal history
Client’s parents reported that client’s birth was normal. There were no
complications during pregnancy and birth. Client weight was below average at the
time of birth. His milestone development was not adequate. His sitting, crawling,
speech, and walking were delayed Bladder and bowl controlled at the age of 4. In
verbal development, the client was not able to produce proper sounds. It was also
reported that the client had weak bones so he cannot perform fine and gross motor
tasks properly.
Table 1.3
Delayed Milestones Reported by Client’s Mother
Milestones Achieved Age of Normal age of
Milestones achieving
First Cry After birth After birth
Father Mother
D.A
Brothers Sister
Sister
Medical History
No severe or problematic medical history reported by the client’s family.
History of Psychiatric Illness in Family
A history of serious Psychiatric illness was not reported by the client’s family.
Psychological Assessment
Psychological assessment is a testing method that uses a number of
techniques to find hypotheses about individuals and their behavior, abilities, and
personality (Framingham 2016). Formal and informal assessment was carried out to
assess the presenting complaint.
Informal assessment
Clinical Interview
Behavioral observation
Reinforcer Identification
Subjecting Rating
Clinical Interviewٰؑ۔A clinical interview is a conversation between a clinician and a patient
that is typicallyintended to develop a diagnosis. It is a "conversation with a purpose" that
can be structured, semi-structured, or unstructured. Emphasis is placed on open-ended
questions with the focus being on the patient and not the clinician. Clinical interviews are
typically used with other measures and methods to diagnose the patient.
Behavioral observation. is a form of informal clinical assessment that recording te
behavior of client in different areas of functioning that the observer is interested (Bakeman
2000).
Child was 6-year-old boy. The child has average height and weight. He was earing neat nd
clean dress and was appropriate to weather. His hair was perfectly combed. He had limited
and no social contact with his peer group. He was just responded to common instruction like
sit down, come with me on repetition of commands. The client behavior was clearl strange
or unusual for her age in which includes tapping and clapping.The child had no verbal
response and he remained silent during the session. He did not maintain the eye contact and
had poor concentration. He had no orientation of space, person and time. By observation it
had been clear that the client performs some repetitive acts. He showed some interest in the
art activities and he liked to play with toys and blocks.
Classroom Observation. In classroom, the client was not interested in coloring and
matching activities and teacher had to repeat again and again her instructions to follow by
the client. He forgot the things immediately after performing them. Client had very poor
gripped over pencils.
Playground Observation. Client showed much interest in playground activities. He was not
interested in 1 game. he started running and then quite that start cycling after few minutes
started sliding. Throughout the time he clap and produce different non syllable sounds.
Session Observation. During the session, client didn’t make eye contact and didn’t show
interest in activities and started clapping and tapping his hands on and off. He was drawing
random lines on page.
Visual Analogue (Subjective Ratings of the Symptoms). Visual analogue can be
used for subjective ratings of mood, emotion, distress, or other sensations. Clients
simply rate the intensity of the sensation on a scale from 0-10 (McQueen, 2008).
Subjective ratings of the child’s symptoms were rated by the mother and the trainee
clinical psychologist by using 0-10 rating scale. In the ratings, 0 = no problem, 5 =
average problem and 10 = severe problem.
Table 1.4
Subjective rating of the client’s problems as reported by the mother
Problematic Areas Pre-Rating
Poor eye contact 1
Inattention 2
Lack of socialization 1
Tapping 9
and focus
Qualitative Analysis. Total score of the child on CARS' categories came out to be 41 which
showedthat the child was Mild to Moderate Autistic. a. Maximum score "4" of the child was
found in adaptation to change .Client showed extreme resistance to change the routineor
engaged in new activities. He showed same pattern of behaviour and repetitive activities.
Diagnosis
The symptoms suggest the client is suffering from with Autism spectrum
Disorder (299.OO/F84.0)
Prognosis
The term prognosis refers to making an educated guess about the expected outcome
of any kind of health treatment, including mental health, in essence making a prediction of
the process an individual may have to go through in order to heal and the extent of healing
includes the type of problem, the duration of the problem, personal strengths, weaknesses
Case Formulation
The client was 6 years old with complaints of lack of verbal communication,
inability to communicate his needs to others, hand flipping, not maintaining eye contact, off
seat behavior atschool speech problem, difficulty in reading and writing, poor socialization.
The child was observed in different settings. To assess the child’s problem CARS, along
with behavioral observation and clinical interview were conducted. The case was
formulated according to bio psychosocial model. According to biological predisposing
factor it was reported that the child was so tiny and weak and have a very low birth
weight at the time of birth and cousin marriage of the parents. According to American
Psychiatric Association (2013), the essential features of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
are persistent impairment in reciprocal social communication and social interaction; and
restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. The precipitating factor
was the child’s delayed milestones such as his language problem. Precipitating factors are
the refusal of parents for special school and toxic environment of the client. These factors
were the stressor. Perpetuating factor are low concentration of the client. The mother of
the child reported that she ignored him often because of her busy routine and in school it
was observed that he remainedsilent as he was under the pressure of teachers and he had to
follow rules which might be his maintaining or perpetuating factors. The psychological
features of autism spectrum disorder suchas lack of interest in social interaction in the first
year of life, and unusual social interactions (e.g., pulling individuals by the hand without
any attempt to look at them), and unusual communication patterns (e.g., knowing the
alphabet but not responding to own name as in the present case) can be a result of child’s
idiosyncratic approach to his social environment, not being able to understand what social
behavior is required from him (Charman, & Stone, 2012).Overprotective parenting in low-
risk environments may have negative consequences for the psychosocial development of
children and youth. Though not well studied, a number of different bodies of literature can
be used to speculate on the reasons for overprotective parenting and the impact it has on
children (Gagnon 2019). The protective factors were the continuation of therapy.
Case Conceptualization
Presenting
Complaints
Tapping
Lack of eye contact
Assessment Tools
Lack of social
interaction Behavioral observation
Symptoms Rating
Scale
Predisposing Precipitatin
Factors g Factors Maintaining factor Protective Factor
Negligence and busy delayed milestones Negligence of Continuation of
routine of mother such as his languagemother, School therapy
Low birth weight problem environment
Lack of socialization,
tapping
Physical Restraint. will be used to teach the client to wait for 5minutes
Occupational Therapy/ Play therapy. The client was given occupational therapy in
which he was engaged in games in order to increase his sensitivity. His touch sensation
was increased by asking him to touch the toys and put it in the box. His visual sensation,
auditory sensation was also used.
Table1.9
Inattention 2 4
Lack of socialization 1 2
Tapping 9 5
10
9
Pre-Rating
Post-Rating
3
2
Recommendations
Proper guidance from his parents towards him will helpful for his speedy recovery
Limitations
Lack of speech was also a hurdle in communication.
Client was very interested in sports activities. So, sports activities should be
planned to improve his motor skills and attention.
Speech therapy will be helpful for the client as he had very little speech.
Parents should also guide to continue the planned activities in the same
manner in homebecause it will help to improve the deficiencies earlier.
Session Report
Session 1-2
Goals:
To build rapport with client.
To find out the presenting complaints.
To find out the interest of client in the different activities.
Session Structure. Client’s appearance was appropriate. He had an impaired social
interaction. He had poor eye contact. He was failed to orient to a speaker. Moreover,
he felt discomfort with physical touching. Client had impaired communication. He
had lack of imitation. His tonal quality of speech was unusual or inappropriate. His
on-seat behavior was tried to maintain in the entire session. Client was showed the
resistance towards the therapist. That is why, rapport was not properly developed with
client. However, with the help of observation, client’s presenting complaints was
noted. In this way, client was not interested in any activity. At the end of session,
client was intentionally left the room and non-verbally good bye to therapist.
Session 3-4
Goals:
To build rapport with client.
Worked on on-seat behavior
To find out the interest of client in the different activities.
Session Structure. In this session, client was not so cooperative. Trainee Psychologist
found his reinforcer to develop his interest and increase his on-seat behavior. During the
session Trainee Psychologist tried to develop strong rapport with client. At the end of
session, Client was engage in coloring. Portage guide to early education was administered on
the client in this session. In this session, the child was not in good mood and was showing
irritating behavior. Therapist gave command to play with blocks and doing the coloring activity.
Stickers were awarded to appreciate him. Parents were psycho educated and change in client’s
behavior.
Session 5-6
Goals:
Revise previous tasks
CARS was administered.
Eye contact maintaining exercises
Command Following
Prompting
Session Structure. In this session trainee psychologist worked on maintaining eye contact.
Client maintained eye contact and cooperates with therapist. In this session, therapist worked on
the child to enhance attention by using physical prompting technique i.e. asked about his body
parts and this trail was done 3 times. Therapist positively reinforced the child and appreciated his
by saying good job and clapping. The therapist work on child’s attention span. Then therapist
ends the session and gave some candies as reinforce.
Session 7-8
Goals:
To build rapport with client.
Conduct IEP plan
Apply social reinforcement technique
Session Structure. In this session Trainee Clinical Psychologist revised his previous tasks.
Client was reinforced on good attempts. He increased his on-seat behavior and partially
maintained eye contact. Trainee Psychologist taught him to draw circle with physical and
verbal prompts. Trainee Clinical Psychologist used reinforcement to get better outcomes.
Session 9-10
Goals:
IEP plan continue
Work on listening
Session Structure. In this session, therapist was doing the activity with the child. The
purpose of the activity was to help the child to listen. This activity improved attention,
concentration, memory and learning skills. This technique helped trainee clinical
psychologist to maintained client’s attention span and understand the command
following.
Session 11-12
Goals:
Revision of previous activities
Social Skills
Learn manners and gratitude
Termination
Session Structure. This session was conducted for the purpose of social skills like how
to hand shake with others and how to say good bye to others. So the main purpose of this
activity was to teach social mannerism. Social learning was done in this session. This
session was based on group therapy. The command was given to the child for handshake
to all children’s who were present in the group. Therapist said well done, good boy and
the child was very happy. The session was done. Previous Tasks were revised. The end
of therapy was positive experience with a long lasting impact on both the client and
therapist. Successful termination was done and thegoals were achieved. Specified time
for working was ended.
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Individual Training Plan
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on the sides
of clients’
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prompt will
be provided
Socialization To wait for he can wait Physical Chair, table Starts from 2-
serve 5.
Self-help To eat with He can eat Physical Spoon, plate, Starts from
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verbal
do so then verbal
prompts
motor jumping He can walk Response Jumping Will start 30%