Stance of Curiosity
Stance of Curiosity
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Child Psychologists Joelle vanLent and Gillian Boudreau tackle topics related to schooling in our modern times including navigating impossible expectations and the power of curiosity in education, empowering educators to redefine success, overcoming fear and shame and their effects on school communities with open dialogue, and balancing high demands with compassion and understanding.
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Centers on various schooling-related topics, including the impact of expectations on mental health, self-monitoring in students, and effective intervention strategies for behavior management. Noteworthy episodes discuss how to communicate autism diagnoses to children, techniques for situational awareness, and interventions like the 'parking lot' method to enhance executive function skills.
Child Psychologists Joelle vanLent and Gillian Boudreau tackle topics related to schooling in our modern times including navigating impossible expectations and the power of curiosity in education, empowering educators to redefine success, overcoming fear and shame and their effects on school communities with open dialogue, and balancing high demands with compassion and understanding.
Gilian shares her strategy of processing adult interactions that don’t go as expected, including at times conflict and defensiveness. Stepping back to consider how fear may be inspiring our responses and re-approaching the interactions with some perspective and curiosity can be very helpful. Joelle and Gillian share some of their key strategies that may help when stress and fear are taking over-
Who is afraid of what?
Slow down and back up
Share the worry
Get consultation from a trusted source
Visualize the situation as a contingency map – what is the goal and is there a different path?
https://autismclassroomresources.com/contingency-maps-for-behavior-proble/
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