Question

How would emotional or developmental disabilities play a role in medication refusal? How would you respond in a refusal situation with a disabled child? Focus

Answer 1

*Developmental disabilities are the group of complex disorders that can result in physical impairments, emotional disabilities, speech disorders, and some other medical disorders. Most of the developmental disabilities are genetic in origin. It is not a curable condition these developmental disabilities may continue throughout life.

Developmental disabilities can be deal with proper guidance and counseling of the parents and as well some therapies are there to the child to improve the behaviors and emotions during the childhood period itself.

Due to the developmental and emotional disabilities, the child or the adult may not be compliance with any of the therapy including medication. That means they are noncompliance to the treatment or refusal to the medication.

We will not try them to force to take the medication. This will again result in non-compliance and refusal we will try them to make or deal with the patient in a soft manner.

*Medication refusal is a common situation can be seen in developmental/emotional disabilities.

They will not cope up with any situation as easily including medication therapy. The counseling and guidance to these may not be useful.

First itself we have to get cooperation from them, we have to deal with them in a friendly manner.

We can go with an intensive interdisciplinary approach is necessary to deal with the condition.

We can improve this type of condition by escape extinction or some behavioral procedures to treat this type of medication refusal in developmental disabilities in childhood itself