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What Does It Mean to Be Person-Centered and Impact Regarding?
Trauma-Informed Care At present, the most popularly utilized and studied technique that aligns with earnestly impact-regarding endeavors is “trauma-informed care.” A simple internet search-engine dive, using the quoted words above, will yield articles, chapters, podcasts, TED talks and other recorded lectures from reputable and reliable sources. I will spend more time with trauma-informed care (TIC)…
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A Bit About Me, and A Lot About Person-Centered Therapy.
Hi. I’m Greg. I can be wordy. For example, I am an impact-regarding, social-and-emotional, trauma-informed, and person-centered aspiring human. However, here you are reading this now and none of that means much, right? I know. It’s just that I’m tired. Existentially exhausted, and I didn’t do any of the things to ensure that my work…
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Words Are Powerful
Words are powerful. Spoken. Heard. Written. Read. Processed. Interpreted. Thought. Communicated. Rinse. Repeat. Ad infinitum. Words are the most powerful and influential force that we, as a species, have. Words…meaning symbolic and shared representations within, among, and across populations used to build mutual understanding, kinship, and community. Words shape…everything. Shape emotions, behaviors, cultures, histories, and…
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Throw Not Hot Coals.
I recently noticed, on Twitter, a person communicating that their meltdown nervous system behaviors were separate from them as an existential being. That is, there is “meltdown” and there is “me.” Among the most fitting analogies I can conceive for this includes the second “Venom” movie, wherein an actual alien inhabits a human while the…
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What Does It Mean To Be Impact-Regarding While Supporting the Social-and-Emotional Development of Those We Serve?
Hi. I’m Greg. I serve as an employment and educational coach for Autistic and neurodiverse individuals and am also a speech/language therapist. I learned, well into my 40s, that I am quite neurodiverse myself. We can discuss that later. For now, I’m most interested in illuminating my evidence-based praxis, that being the training, lived experience,…
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In Plain Language: I Want Us All to Be Better.
I just completed mandated-reporter training to maintain my Pennsylvania license to practice speech and language pathology. Mandated-reporter meaning, I am legally obligated to either call or submit an online report if at any point I have even reasonable cause to suspect child abuse including physical, psychological, sexual, and/or neglect. The training, when it discussed the…
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In Plain Language: Power Dynamics Matter Most In Relationship
In all relationships. Across every moment. There exist power dynamics. We, each of us, enter daily into relationships defined by perceived and generally accepted power dynamics. Doctor -> PatientTeacher -> StudentParent -> ChildHusband -> WifeCaregiver -> CaregivenTherapist -> ClientOfficer -> CivilianSupervisor -> SuperviseeGuard -> InmateEmployer -> Employee Note that I’ve included an arrow that places…
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In Plain Language: We Are Framing “Punishment” All Wrong
This is the second in as series of plain-language posts exploring behavior modification and offering an alternate framing and practice of human service, inclusion, and harm-reduction. In a recent post, “In Plain Language: We Should Stop Using Applied Behavior Analysis,” or ABA, I offered the following definition of ABA, “In the simplest terms, ABA therapies…
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In Plain Language: We Should Stop Using Applied Behavior Analysis.
(Please note: This piece, on 7/18/22, while vetted, peer-reviewed, and edited, remains a draft. I felt it important to get it to point where I am comfortable with you having it even though it hasn’t been externally verified/validated by a governing body or recognized publication.) First, a few words about plain language, in plain language.…
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Ritalin…Three Months Later
Since the Ritalin revelation, life has intervened in several critical ways, providing painful but important insight. The first several weeks with Ritalin in my system provided an experience very similar to the first several hours when I finally got corrective vision lenses as a pre-teen. I had been, for a decade, experiencing the world through…