Psychological Support
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Department Overview
Psychological support and child skill-development
Masar center aims at providing psychological support and habilitation services for children using the latest and best effective methodologies of treatment, training and habilitation, applied by specialists through therapeutic sessions individually or in groups. This follows diagnosis and assessment and is based on the child’s needs, as well as setting the suitable therapeutic program under the supervision of specialized consultants
Masar’s teamwork always pursued achieving developmental values in terms of leaving the desirable influence and keeping sustainability after the end of consultancy implementation, with commitment to social work criteria, considering personal space and information privacy of the targeted groups, as well as commitment to child protection policies and safety in activity implementation.
- Informal Settlements Development Fund
- Sawiris Foundation for Social Development and CSR of Egyptian Refining Company.
Dr. Dina Al-Eskandarani
Technical Consultant
Technical consultant at Masar center for psychological support and child skill-development
- PhD of Neurological psychology from Ain Shams University,
- Master’s degree in clinical psychotherapy from Alexandria University
- Technical supervisor at international organizations upon special needs classes
- Experience of 16 years in the field of special needs
- Certified lecturer and trainer from Arab corporation for psychological tests in Alexandria
- Certified lecturer from Ain Shams University
- Worked at many private clinics and hospitals as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist for mental disorders in children and adolescents
1. Tests and assessments
Masar center provides for clients of parents and children all types of tests and scales needed for problem diagnosis and determining severity in order to deal with and resolve them.
Stanford-Binet 5th edition-Revised IQ test
– Developmental impairments in children, adolescents and adults
– Mental educational estimates pertaining to joining special education programs
– Providing information on interventions such as family individual plans for children and individual educational plans for school-age children
– Diagnosing mental handicap cases (in all age groups)
– Learning disability
– Cognitive and developmental retardation in young children
– Enrolling students in mentally gifted programs in schools
Conners rating scale
Administered for diagnosing Autism cases and specifying severity
ADHD test
ADHD test (Al-Nubi) is administered in the following cases:
Diagnosing ADHD (administered with the child)
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale
Administered in the following cases:
Measuring social intelligence for diagnosing social intelligence in autistic children, selective mutism
Denver Development Screening Test
Administered in the following cases:
Measuring primary mental abilities in children younger than two years old, early intervention cases, genetic handicap cases
Professional Advisors
Exploratory scale administered in the following cases:
Stubbornness, anxiety and symptoms of ADHD.
A rating scale to be administered with parents.
Psychological tests
- Exploratory tests
Emotional intelligence – Eysenck Personality inventory
Administered for diagnosing/exploring cases of:
Weak self-confidence, Anxiety, Social shyness
- Clinical tests administered for measuring disorder severity after diagnosis, such as:
Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder …..etc.
Stanford-Binet 5th edition-Revised IQ test | Administered for diagnosing the following cases: – Developmental impairments in children, adolescents and adults – Mental educational estimates pertaining to joining special education programs – Providing information on interventions such as family individual plans for children and individual educational plans for school-age children – Diagnosing mental handicap cases (in all age groups) – Learning disability – Cognitive and developmental retardation in young children – Enrolling students in mentally gifted programs in schools |
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CARS rating scale | Administered for diagnosing Autism cases and specifying severity |
Conners rating scale | Exploratory scale administered in the following cases: Stubbornness, anxiety and symptoms of ADHD A rating scale to be administered with parents. |
ADHD test | ADHD test (Al-Nubi) is administered in the following cases: Diagnosing ADHD (administered with the child) |
Denver Development Screening Test | Administered in the following cases: Measuring primary mental abilities in children younger than two years old, early intervention cases, genetic handicap cases |
VINELAND ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR SCALE | Administered in the following cases: Measuring social intelligence for diagnosing social intelligence in autistic children, selective mutism |
Psychological tests | – Exploratory tests Emotional intelligence – Eysenck Personality inventory Administered for diagnosing/exploring cases of: Weak self-confidence, Anxiety, Social shyness – Clinical tests administered for measuring disorder severity after diagnosis, such as: Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder …..etc. |
2. specialties
Masar center is distinguished by a distinct group of highly trained specialists in all specialties, and all programs are delivered under the supervision of the technical consultant Dr/ Dina Al-Eskandarani
Skill-development dep.
- Early intervention
- Daily life skill development
(cognitive skills – self-care – social skills – language – motor skills) - Pre-academic habilitation
- Mental abilities development (attention – thinking – memory
- Self-control and impulsivity control
Speech therapy dep.
- Verbal ability development
- Treating speech impairments in children and adults
(stammering – developmental language delay – stuttering – lisping – clot effects) - Non uttering some letters
- Repeating speech without meaning understanding
- Cases of Hearing deficit and cochlear implant
- Aphasia cases resulted from strokes
- Cases with pronunciation problems of different disorders and syndromes
Learning disability dep.
- Treating developmental learning disability
- Developing academic skills
- School curricula through learning disability methodology
Behavior modification dep.
- Behavior analysis
- Setting therapeutic behavior plans
- Family counseling for dealing with the child and implementing plans
Sensory Integration dep.
Sessions deal with disorders of sensory processing, which is a sensory impairment delaying the child’s response in other systems performance either by hyper sensory response, delayed sensory response or non- response. Sensory integration sessions work on treating sensory disorder and restoring the innate regulation of the child’s seven senses:
Sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch in addition to:
Vestibular sense: which is responsible for balance and relaxation
The muscular sense: in which impairment results in neither sense of the body muscles nor a sense of fatigue
Psychomotor dep.
- Hyperactivity and inability of a child to stay sitting for a even a short while
- Continuous child’s feeling of lethargy and motor laziness
- Weakness in the child’s muscles and inability to hold items in hand or motor problems
- Lack of balance in walking
- Flat foot, kyphosis or any other body form problems
All these are achieved through psychomotor sessions targeting a child’s feeling of happiness and humor, thus achieving all aspects and purposes of psychomotor habilitation.
Psychological counseling dep.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) sessions are conducted through:
Employing cognitive processes especially recognition and thinking, as thoughts are divided into positive beneficial ones and negative harmful others that result in disorders. The main goal of cognitive therapy is alternating negative thoughts by positive useful ones engaging behavior therapy techniques for complete goal attainment. Thus, an individual achieves the highest level of thinking, behaving and feeling adjustment.
The main idea of Cognitive Behavior Therapy can be summarized through a shape of a triangle with three sides representing thoughts, feelings and behavior.
Psychological counseling sessions in Masar are all most highly confidential
Online sessions are available upon request.
12 Therapists Here To Help
Skill-development dep. | Speech therapy dep. | Learning disability dep. | Behavior modification dep. |
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Masar center is distinguished by a distinct team of professionally trained specialists in dealing with different groups of children and working on developing their skills through tailored sessions for each individual child based on his/her needs.
Skill-development sessions aim at:
| Masar center depends in delivering speech therapy sessions on a distinct group of specialists who are able to diagnose the child’s problem and setting an accurate program for developing the child’s performance in speech skills
Speech therapy sessions aim at resolving the child’s speech problems such as:
| Masar center provides specialized sessions for treating learning disability by professional specialists.
Learning disability sessions aim at:
| Behavior modification sessions in Masar center are implemented by specialists who are specialized in dealing with different behavior patterns through:
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Sensory Integration dep. | Psychomotor dep. | Psychological counseling dep. |
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Masar center is distinguished by a sensory integration chamber for conducting specialized sessions aiming at treating sensory problems in children
Sessions deal with disorders of sensory processing, which is a sensory impairment delaying the child’s response in other systems performance either by hyper sensory response, delayed sensory response or non- response. Sensory integration sessions work on treating sensory disorder and restoring the innate regulation of the child’s seven senses: Sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch in addition to: Vestibular sense: which is responsible for balance and relaxation The muscular sense: in which impairment results in neither sense of the body muscles nor a sense of fatigue | Masar center provides specialized sessions by professionals of psychomotor habilitation and physiotherapy aiming at overcoming different physical and motor problems in children such as:
All these are achieved through psychomotor sessions targeting a child’s feeling of happiness and humor, thus achieving all aspects and purposes of psychomotor habilitation. | Psychological counseling sessions is one of the remarkable kind of services delivered by professionals in Masar. Counseling sessions work on treating a variety of mental health problems as well as modifying mistaken behavior patterns through adjusting thinking styles without medication. The service targets children, adolescents and adults through using a range of specialized tests and assessments defining scientifically and accurately the problem a person suffers from and setting the program paving the way for properly overcoming the problem.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) sessions are conducted through: Employing cognitive processes especially recognition and thinking, as thoughts are divided into positive beneficial ones and negative harmful others that result in disorders. The main goal of cognitive therapy is alternating negative thoughts by positive useful ones engaging behavior therapy techniques for complete goal attainment. Thus, an individual achieves the highest level of thinking, behaving and feeling adjustment. The main idea of Cognitive Behavior Therapy can be summarized through a shape of a triangle with three sides representing thoughts, feelings and behavior. Psychological counseling sessions in Masar are all most highly confidential Online sessions are available upon request. |
Our Projects
Masar attaches great importance to the developmental works and crucial pivotal issues in our community. The fields of education, developing children and providing support to them are considered of extreme priority to Masar’s team, as we work on activating the role of development in promoting the field of child and young people’s mental health and skill-development. On this basis, Masar provided services of sessions and trainings in cooperation with a number of international organizations through various developmental projects including:
Enhancing Quality of Protection and Education for Immigrant
Funded by: Save the Children
Prevention and Protection from SGBV for Refugees
Funded by: Care Egypt
Safer Cities for Girls
Funded by: Plan International
Training courses and workshops
Masar center also provides services for specialists in the field and the fresh graduates in order to achieve the center’s vision aiming at raising the field workers’ efficiency what’s in turn reflected on better service for our children. This’s done through delivering a variety of courses including:
Training courses
Preparing skill Development specialist V1
Preparing skill Development specialist V2
Training course on Autism
Training course on
ADHD
specific scales and measures
Stanford-Binet IQ
test
preparing learning disability specialist
On-job Training
Masar center provides an on-job training for new specialists in the field through attending actual sessions. A trainee acquire the knowledge and skills in:
Techniques of dealing with different cases of children
Conducting proper assessment
Setting a therapeutic program that matches the child’s case and abilities
A trainee is being evaluated throughout the training to have a clear vision about his/her strengths to make the difference at work for more development and challenges that need improvement.
On-job training is available at Masar in all specialties in addition to benefiting from additional free workshops to acquire more knowledge.
On-job training is available in the following fields:
- Skill-development
- Speech therapy
- Behavior modification
- Learning disability
- Sensory integration
- Psychomotor
Our Therapy Philosophy
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Cognitive therapy
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Integrative Therapy
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Behavior therapy
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