Executive functions and social skills in survivors of pediatric brain tumor
| Autor: | Iris Paltin, Avi Madan-Swain, Alyssa Reddy, Karin S. Walsh, Francie L. Mitchell, Nina Reynolds, Kelly R. Wolfe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Adolescent education Population Neuropsychological Tests Article Developmental psychology Executive Function Interpersonal relationship Social skills Surveys and Questionnaires Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Interpersonal Relations Survivors Cognitive decline Child Social Behavior education.field_of_study Brain Neoplasms Neuropsychology Cognition Executive functions Social relation Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Psychology Social Adjustment Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Child Neuropsychology. 19:370-384 |
| ISSN: | 1744-4136 0929-7049 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09297049.2012.669470 |
| Popis: | Medical advances have resulted in increased survival rates for children with brain tumors. Consequently, issues related to survivorship have become more critical. The use of multimodal treatment, in particular cranial radiation therapy, has been associated with subsequent cognitive decline. Specifically, deficits in executive functions have been reported in survivors of various types of pediatric brain tumor. Survivors are left with difficulties, particularly in self-monitoring, initiation, inhibition, and planning, to name a few. Another domain in which survivors of pediatric brain tumor have been reported to show difficulty is that of social skills. Parents, teachers, and survivors themselves have reported decreased social functioning following treatment. Deficits in executive functions and social skills are likely interrelated in this population, as executive skills are needed to navigate various aspects of social interaction; however, this has yet to be studied empirically. Twenty-four survivors of pediatric brain tumor were assessed using a computerized task of executive functions, as well as paper-and-pencil measures of social skills and real-world executive skills. Social functioning was related to a specific aspect of executive functions, that is, the survivors' variability in response time, such that inconsistent responding was associated with better parent-reported and survivor-reported social skills, independent of intellectual abilities. Additionally, parent-reported real-world global executive abilities predicted parent-reported social skills. The implications of these findings for social skills interventions and future research are discussed. |
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