Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Children and Adolescents

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Children and Adolescents

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) occur when the mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy.
The damage to the brain caused by alcohol causes serious mental disabilities. These, however, are often invisible - this is why the expectations other people have frequently do not match the abilities of those affected and their peculiar behaviour can be too hastily pre-judged as ‘lazy’ or ‘oppositional’, something which leads to common recommendations such as, ‘you need to try harder’. By looking at these disorders from a
neuro-behavioural perspective, Jörg Liesegang has succeeded in creating a new approach. Following the WHO’s International Classification of
Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), it would be possible to build bridges here in a resourceoriented way - from the diagnostics to the position
youth welfare offices or schools should take on providing advice, to the psycho-education of those themselves affected.

• New resource-oriented perspective of FASD
• Including model statement with text modules
• With working materials (exercises, templates for copying, worksheets)

TARGET GROUP
Psychological and medical psychotherapists, psychiatrists. Secondary target groups: professional groups working with people affected by FASD, social workers, occupational therapists, teachers, doctors