My Favorite Coping Skills for Dysregulated Children
As a therapist, I am frequently working with children who are emotionally dysregulated. This means, I see a lot of behavioral issues, difficulties containing behaviors, emotions, and reacting instead of responding to difficult situations.
My favorite example is when a parent makes a grilled cheese sandwich when the child really wanted turkey and the child throws a fit and ends up on the floor, crying, thrashing, and believing it is the worst day of their life. Yes, this is truly how they feel. They have little to no ability to cope with small (or big) stressors and instead they act out.
ADHD, Oppositional and Autistic ch...
Source: World of Psychology - March 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marianne Riley Tags: ADHD and ADD Aspergers Autism Children and Teens Parenting Self-Help Acting Out Attention Deficit Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Coping Skills Emotional Dysregulation Emotional Outburst Emotional Regulation Emotional se Source Type: blogs
Purging Healthcare of Unnatural Acts
BY UWE REINHARDT
Everyone knows (or should know) that forcing a commercial health insurer to write for an individual a health insurance policy at a premium that falls short of the insurer’s best ex ante estimate of the cost of health care that individual will require is to force that insurer into what economists might call an unnatural act.
Remarkably, countries that rely on competing private health insurers to operate their universal, national health insurance systems all do just that. They allow each insurer to set the premium for a government-mandated , comprehensive benefit package, but require that each insurer “...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Uwe Reinhardt Source Type: blogs
Glass Full
I feel so different right now, and it takes energy to try to explain to my husband when I act differently, when he acts strangely because of how I act. The thing is, I really don ' t care what he thinks. More later if I remember.I feel...like my glass is full, but not like in the half full/half empty way. Like I cannot take on any more, not even empathy for another person. Actually, my life would be less painful in general if I could give up a just a bit of empathy. I would gladly bestow it upon my husband.I have no tolerance for unnecessary negativity. I read the news daily, at a time of my c...
Source: bipolar.and.me - December 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Glass Full
I feel so different right now, and it takes energy to try to explain to my husband when I act differently, when he acts strangely because of how I act. The thing is, I really don ' t care what he thinks. More later if I remember.I feel...like my glass is full, but not like in the half full/half empty way. Like I cannot take on any more, not even empathy for another person. Actually, my life would be less painful in general if I could give up a just a bit of empathy. I would gladly bestow it upon my husband.I have no tolerance for unnecessary negativity. I read the news daily, at a time of my c...
Source: bipolar.and.me - December 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Tired of the Suffering
I guess the realization or the hard core depression set in yesterday. I haven ' t wanted to finish my orders and got an unhappy review from a customer. I deserved it. I am not sure why I do not deserve more bad reviews, bad everything.For several days, I have noticed the voice, or maybe it is not really a voice but a sudden knowing but it does not seem like it comes from myself, but something other than myself. I am aware it is in my head, my mind, and I do not mean that to be as if I am making it up, but rather that I am not making it up. That is where the awareness of the intrusion, yet it does n...
Source: bipolar.and.me - November 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Autism - updating my thinking
This blog is about two very different people with atypical minds connected by family. One is now an adult, the other is almost there. I call them #1 and #2.#1 wants to be independent. He does less with me now, and more on his own. That ’s a sad thing for me, but I’m hardly the first father to miss time with an adult son. #2, at the moment, wants Dad time even as he takes on new things that test his limits. Things like joining a neurotypical high school mountain biking team [1].Seeing him in that setting I have more insight into how his world looks. When he ’s stressed I see him move into a mode where the world fades ...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - October 5, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: adult Asperger ' athletics autism community exercise Source Type: blogs
24 Creative Geniuses Who Inspire Boldness (Even if You ’re Shy or Socially Anxious)
You're reading 24 Creative Geniuses Who Inspire Boldness (Even if You’re Shy or Socially Anxious), originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
“Any step in the direction of expressing your creative impulses is a step in the direction of actualizing the genius that resides within you.” -Dr. Wayne Dyer
Genius? Expressing creative impulses? Isn’t that aiming a little high? I’m just trying to survive.
If this represents the tired record playing in your mind, stick around for some major inspiration.
Per...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: rbourne Tags: confidence creativity featured self improvement best inspirational quotes best self-improvement blogs creative genius how to be bold how to build confidence pickthebrain self confidence Source Type: blogs
Exercising with autism: working within the energy budget
A post aboutenergy levels and autism activity reminded me how #2 has managed his mountain biking team participation.He is one of the more consistent attendees of practices, but he doesn ’t do a full practice. He started out doing about half a practice. Over time that’s edged up to perhaps 2/3 of a practice. He goes at a pace that feels very slow to a near 60yo father/coach — but he goes.His consistency is remarkable. It ’s the same with inline skating. He shows up. He goes at his own pace. He does it.He is almost always limited by his “emotional energy”, not his lungs and muscles. He loves to talk to me while ...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - August 10, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: adolescence Asperger ' autism exercise Source Type: blogs
Tips for managing one Asperger's athlete
Both #1 and #2 are physically active. This is very much by design and lifelong persistence. #1 often enjoys team sports and personal bicycling, but these activities are also agitating, disturbing, and anxiety provoking. He’s very sensitive to criticism, very insensitive to advice and feedback, and by nature macho and blunt. That is a hard combination, but #2 is harder. I think #2 may be more typical of the active Asperger’s athlete.#2 does not like exercise. He does it because it helps him psychologically as well as physically and because he wants to please me. I encourage it because it’s critical to his mental hea...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - July 18, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: adolescence Asperger ' exercise sport Source Type: blogs
Tips for managing one Asperger's athlete
< p > Both #1 and #2 are physically active. This is very much by design and lifelong persistence. #1 often enjoys team sports and personal bicycling, but these activities are also agitating, disturbing, and anxiety provoking. He ’s very sensitive to criticism, very insensitive to advice and feedback, and by nature macho and blunt. That is a hard combination, but #2 is harder. I think #2 may be more typical of the active Asperger’s athlete. < /p > < p > #2 does not like exercise. He does it because it helps him psychologically as well as physically and because he wants to please me. I encourage it because it ’s crit...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - July 18, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: adolescence Asperger ' exercise sport Source Type: blogs
Tips for managing one Asperger's athlete
Both #1 and #2 are physically active. This is very much by design and lifelong persistence. #1 often enjoys team sports and personal bicycling, but these activities are also agitating, disturbing, and anxiety provoking. He ’s very sensitive to criticism, very insensitive to advice and feedback, and by nature macho and blunt. That is a hard combination, but #2 is harder. I think #2 may be more typical of the active Asperger’s athlete.#2 does not like exercise. He does it because it helps him psychologically as well as physically and because he wants to please me. I encourage it because it ’s critical to his mental h...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - July 18, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: adolescence Asperger ' exercise sport Source Type: blogs
Inside EMS Podcast: Autism Education Edition
In this week’s episode of Inside EMS, co-host Chris Cebollero and I welcome autism educator Kimberly Stanford to the Guest Table. Kim is the mother of a son with Asperger’s and a mental health professional, and developer of an autism training course and EMS autism sensory kit. Give it a listen. Lots of interesting stuff ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - May 28, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The false link between mental illness and gun violence
It would be nice if we could eliminate mass shootings by improving the mental health system, coaxing (or forcing) potential shooters into treatment before they have a chance to wreak havoc. As the Washington Post (Most mass shooters aren’t mentally ill. So why push better treatment as the answer?) reports:
“It would be ridiculous to hope that doing something about the mental-health system will stop these mass murders,” said Michael Stone, a forensic psychiatrist at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and author of “The Anatomy of Evil,” which examines the personalities of brutal killers. “It...
Source: Health Business Blog - May 19, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Culture International Policy and politics Research Source Type: blogs
