The Shandong Provincial Mental Health Center's Child and Adolescent Psychological and Behavioral Training Base was established in 2016 and is a designated institution of the Jinan Disabled Persons' Federation. The base currently has over 1000 square meters of training facilities, and the rehabilitation team includes physicians, technicians, psychotherapists, and others.
The base offers programs such as concentration training, social skills training, learning ability training, sensory integration training, language rehabilitation training, behavior correction therapy, cognitive understanding training, visual drawing training, fine self-care training, peers therapy, etc. for normal children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), tic disorder, intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, and other special needs children who have difficulty concentrating, poor physical coordination, and emotional instability.
1. Concentration training
Concentration is the foundation of learning. Children need to have good concentration in the classroom in order to absorb the knowledge taught by teachers in a timely and comprehensive manner. The trainers at the base use a reinforcement training method from sensory perception to memory understanding reasoning analysis integration application to enhance children's concentration, improve the concentration, stability, and persistence required to build concentration, and thus improve children's learning ability and effectiveness.
2. Social skills training
Socializing is about establishing behaviors that are mutually recognized within a group and skills for interacting with others. Social skills training is aimed at improving children's ability to interact with others, including learning to recognize themselves, developing autonomous behavior, and handling interpersonal relationships. Social behavior training is not limited to a certain period of time or class in daily life, but runs through any activity.
3. Sensory integration training
Sensory integration ability is an important ability for children to receive external information (various sensory stimuli) and make adaptive responses. Good sensory integration ability is the foundation of a child's life and learning.
Based on the degree of sensory integration dysfunction in children, the base uses specialized sensory integration training equipment to stimulate their vestibular, proprioceptive, visual, tactile, auditory, etc., in order to enhance their perception of the outside world.
4. Language rehabilitation training
Following the normal laws of children's language development, while also applying scientific teaching concepts, combined with subjects such as speech pathology, speech and language rehabilitation, we conduct comprehensive assessments of each child's language development and tailor language training plans accordingly. The course includes oral training, phonetic training, vocabulary training, painting training, social language, and thought interpretation training.
5. Behavior correction therapy
Stable emotions are the foundation for children's training and guiding them to participate in collective and social activities. Only with stable emotions can children acquire daily life skills and gradually develop interpersonal communication and social adaptation abilities. Behavior correction is the analysis of the causes of children's emotional problems, taking corresponding measures to reduce or eliminate problematic behaviors in a short period of time, and achieving the goal of greatly improving self-control, self-management, and participation and cooperation.
6. Cognitive understanding training
Cognitive understanding includes basic cognition (naming, pairing, imitation, object function, color, shape, location, character, mathematical concepts, classification, distinction and comparison), visual cognition, auditory cognition, tactile cognition, etc. Through training, children's cognitive understanding ability can be enhanced.
7. Visual drawing training
Visual drawing and writing training starts with visual toys, establishing children's cognition of flat, three-dimensional, sequential, etc., and improving their organization, understanding ability, cognitive ability, etc. Gradually establish children's understanding of points, lines, surfaces, directions, angles, etc., and improve their visual acuity.
8. Fine self-care training
Through manual classes such as drawing with fingers, tearing paper, rubbing paper, and folding paper, children are trained in fine finger movements such as pressing, kneading, kneading, pinching, and twisting, improving their finger dexterity; By practicing activities such as buttoning up, putting on clothes, folding clothes, putting on shoes, and tying shoelaces, one can improve their self-care ability and develop the function of their brain's motor regions.
9. Peers therapy
Peers therapy is a parent assisted intervention therapy aimed at middle and high school students who have difficulty establishing and maintaining friendships. It can be used for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and other social difficulties. PEERS focuses on teaching skills related to building and maintaining friendships, managing conflicts and exclusion among peers. Through structured curriculum training, after teaching social skills, help teenagers master the taught social skills through role-playing/behavioral exercises, and increase their generalization of social skills through assigning homework.
There are currently 12 types of multi-functional classrooms in the base, including individualized training room, art room, OT room, enlightenment room, multi sensory training room, somatosensory training room, venting room, team training room, evaluation room, situational classroom, sensory integration training room, and VR room. We have created the best learning environment for children, which can quickly improve their abilities in all aspects.
