Thursday, March 2, 2017

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Salon A

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A10 - The First Australia Study to Screen and Diagnose Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Among Sentenced Youth Raewyn Mutch, Bernadette Safe, Pestell Carmela, Jacinta Freeman, Hayley Passmore This session will delineate the complex aetiologies for incarceration of Australian Youth, including the legacy of colonisation and the stolen generation, with loss of place, law and culture, the impact social marginalisation, intergenerational disadvantage and lived trauma, prenatal exposures including alcohol and morbidities arising from health and education inequities and high risk choices. Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the range and diversity of impairments present among incarcerated youth and the importance of cross-cultural assessments and assessments in languages other than English 2. Understand factors contributing to incarceration and demonstrate the value of clinical assessment referral and care plan development 3. Delineate the study outcomes which correlate most significantly with a diagnosis of FASD and explore the important differences in life history and test outcomes for co-morbid diagnoses among the sentenced youth 4. Explore the legal ramifications of the findings, the evidenced based methods of care for managing youth who have cognitive impairment and FASD in high risk and high security settings and the barriers and enablers for system change