An enduring issue in the study of mental health is identifying developmental processes that explain how childhood characteristics progress to maladaptive forms.
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Power and Control: Learning to Use It Respectfully – In Person Training
As caregivers, we are in a close and complicated relationship with the individuals we support. We are asked to ensure certain levels of health and safety, while also giving the client the dignity of personhood and autonomy.
Managing Threatening Confrontations
Managing Threatening Confrontations is designed to assist you in learning how to effectively support individuals who could experience the full range of behavioral escalation. These moments often appear chaotic-when to talk, when to step back, who to call for back up, and “when to duck.”
Managing Threatening Confrontations – In Person Training
Registration begins at 8:45 am. Time includes a one hour lunch break on your own. Register Here Space is limited. Please notify Training & Consultation – comm.training@waisman.wisc.edu – if you are unable to attend. Cancellations …
Autistic Flourishing: Fostering Happy, Healthy Brains & Bodies
Explore how to be an ally and foster genuine autistic happiness, health and, flourishing across the lifespan for our autistic selves, family, friends, and fellow humans.
Sigan Hartley, PhD – Slide of the Week
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) report elevated parenting stress. The current study examined bidirectional effects between parenting stress and three domains of child functioning (ASD symptoms, internalizing behavior problems, and externalizing behavior problems) across four time points in 188 families of children with ASD (originally aged 5 to 12 yrs).
Managing Threatening Confrontations
Registration begins at 8:45 am. Time includes a one hour lunch break, on your own. Registration Fee: $75 per person Please note that the training will be held at MARC South: 901 Post Rd. Madison. …
Managing Threatening Confrontations – Half Day
Registration Fee: $50 Instructor: Shawn Bass, Waisman Center Community TIES This seminar is similar to the full day in that it is designed to assist you in learning how to effectively support individuals who could …
Seth Pollak, PhD
Children who experience early adversity often develop emotion regulatory problems, but little is known about the mechanisms that mediate this relation. We tested whether general associative learning processes contribute to associations between adversity, in the form of child maltreatment, and negative behavioral outcomes.
Study shows autism symptoms can improve into adulthood
Hallmarks of autism are characteristic behaviors – repetitive motions, problems interacting with others, impaired communication abilities – that occur in widely different combinations and degrees of severity among those who have the condition.