The WHAAM app will initially take you through the process of setting up a specific network for your child or adolescent.
The parents play an important part in the organisation of every network.
In our experience it is important to have a health professional involved who has experience of both ADHD treatments and behavioural and emotional challenges.
The network will often include teachers or other adults that support the child or adolescent.
The network will help to monitor and gather evidence about identified behaviours in different contexts.
Build the child network
The relevant behaviour of the child will need to be evaluated while taking note of their social and life context. (i.e. at home, at school, with peers etc.)
Specific behaviour will be identified and defined, wherever possible with the help of a health professional.
The behaviour needs to be clearly identified in an understandable way.
It is important to make sure that the behaviour is both easily observable and measurable.
The setting that the behaviour occurs needs to be identified. This is known as the Setting Event.
Define the behaviourWhen we are observing behaviours we need to identify:
The health professionals can be very helpful in identifying the specific behaviours to be observed. We have devised a specific training to help people understand how to improve the accuracy of their observations.
The WHAAM app can be used with tablets, smart phones and laptops.
The WHAAMapp permits to carry out the observation also using a smartphone
How to make an assessment
All behaviours have meaning. Even behaviours that appear to be spontaneous or impulsive will have a motivational factor.
This motivational factor is called the Function.
A useful way of identifying the function of a particular behaviour is to use the ABC approach of functional analysis.
The WHAAM app supports this approach.
Collect the ABC with the WHAAMappThe planning can be helped with the guidance of a health professional.
Parents and teachers can also contribute to developing the plan.
The WHAAM app helps in the key activities of observing, recording and the monitoring of strategies during the planned interventions.
How to program an intervention
We designed the WHAAM app to support and enhance the planned interventions using the benefits of graphical evidence to support and summarise the main results from observations.
The WHAAM app will also produce some synthetic indices and help create text reports.
Evaluate the intervention
