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Table 1 Support provided by the PLUSS

From: Multi-professional and multi-agency model PLUSS to facilitate early detection and support of pre-school children with neurodevelopmental difficulties – a model description

Type of need for support

Type of intervention

Providers

Receiver

(C = child, P = parents, G = group, S = staff)

Regulation of emotions and behaviour

Parental support

CHC

P

Problems in social interaction and play with peers

Special pedagogical support supervision and efforts based on organization, group and individual

Pre-school

C, G, S

Speech and language related problems

Parental Education: Series Talks and Social Stories

The Swedish National Agency for Education's reading lift, module several languages in the preschool

Material that speech therapist/special education teacher will share with preschool staff who work with it from a group perspective

Habilitation

P

Late motor development

Physiotherapist intervention and training

Habilitation

C, P, S

  Anxiety

Parental support

Support and treatment

Preschool: special pedagogical supervision and interventions based on organization, group and individual

CHC, CAP

P, S

  Early life adversity

Parental support

Support and treatment

TMO (trauma-informed care)

CHC, CAP, pre-schools

C, P, S

  Attachment problems

WWW

Parental support

COS-P

Attachment trauma – differential diagnosis autism

COS-P as individual support

Parental support/Family Treatment

 CHC, Social Services (SS)

 C, P

Suspected or confirmed disability of the child's parent

Following aid decisions:

- Parental support/Family Treatment

- Collaboration with e.g. LSS or other actors

- Network Meetings )

- Contact family

- Family home placement/network placement

SS 

 P

Suspected or confirmed mental illness in the child's family or immediate family

Parental support

Adult psychiatry

Parental support/Family Treatment

Collaboration with e.g. LSS or other actors

Network Meetings

Contact family

Family home placement/network placement

CHC, SS 

 P

  Parental abuse

Parental support/Family Treatment

Buy external outpatient care for children and/or adults

Network Meetings

Contact family

Family home placement/network placement

treatment via placement or outpatient care for adult drug users

 SS

 P