Q. Now that Ray’s key executive function issues have been determined by the assessments, please choose which of the following strategies would be most useful.
Q. Now that Ray’s key executive function issues have been determined by the assessments, please choose which of the following strategies would be most useful.
- Increased structure and routine. – True – in many instances this can be useful; it provides a scaffold and reduces the demands on planning and organisational skills that may already be overloaded.
- Recommend that the family boss the individual around and tell them what to do. – False – while prompting can useful it has to be delivered in an understanding and at times flexible manner.
- Utilise compensatory strategies such as diaries, alarms, reminder systems. – True – all these external compensatory strategies are useful, but don’t try them all at once.
- Problem solving strategies such as Goal Management Training to help with planning and problem solving difficulties. – True – problem solving techniques that attempt to make the steps involved in planning and problem solving more explicit have been shown to be useful.
- Provide the individual and their family with information about the nature of these difficulties and their day to day consequences. – True – it is important for people to understand what they are dealing with and for families to realise that their relative isn’t being deliberately lazy or difficult.
- Get the individual to keep practising the problem they failed until they get it right. – False – while they may learn to solve that particular problem the results are unlikely to generalise to other, even fairly similar, problems.
- Don’t bother as executive problems aren’t amenable to rehabilitation. – False – while the rehabilitation of executive problems is certainly challenging there is evidence of its effectiveness.
Page last reviewed: 09 Apr 2020
