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Grief Counseling
We are all born different in this world to a certain degree. Some of us are introverted, and others are extroverted. Some of us are white, and some of us are black. All of our physical features and personality traits come together and make us unique individuals. Even though we may have similarities to other people, we are each a unique person.
Unfortunately, the effect of being different can be emotionally draining if everyone else around you have more in common with each other than with you. It is never easy to be the oddball in the group or the person who stands out the most. People will point fingers at you or possibly even criticize you. This is not easy for anyone to deal with on a daily basis.
As a Doctor of Grief Counseling, we come to the aide of people who are different. We work to convince others that being different is not a bad thing. In fact, some of the most successful people in the world are different, such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Showing patients that being different is a plus rather than a minus, then it will be easier for them to cope with their differences.
You might think it’s a little extreme that someone would need a grief counselor to deal with being different. But when the emotional impact of being different gets the best of someone, they will have no choice but to seek out a grief counselor for help.
Doctorate of Grief Counseling and Psychotherapy
Grief counseling and psychotherapy are almost in sync. A psychotherapist is somebody who counsels people suffering from a common mental illness, such as depression, stress, addiction, anxiety, and other negative behaviors.
Sometimes these illnesses and behaviors can be the result of something traumatic that happened to the person in their life. In other cases, these illnesses might not have any direct underlying cause. They could just exist because the person has a natural inability to mentally process stressful situations.
A psychotherapist normally treats people with long-term mental illnesses and disorders. A grief counselor, on the other hand, focuses more on people who have suffered a traumatic event or travesty in their life and have a tough time processing their grief. A person like this may benefit from both grief counseling and psychotherapy, but it is a good idea for them to try out grief counseling first.
A grief counselor talks with a patient and guides them in moving on past their grief. It doesn’t mean the person is mentally ill. It just means the pain of their trauma or loss is something they cannot control that well. Grief counselors are trained specifically in this area. They have the training needed to help someone control their grief and to move past the traumatic event that happened to them.
Doctorate of Grief Counseling and the Effect on the Loss of a Toddler
It is difficult for any parent to lose a child. But when that child is only a toddler, the pain is infinitely more difficult to process. A toddler still has so much growing and living to do. When their life is cut short, a parent misses out on the opportunity to watch their child grow. More importantly, they miss the opportunity to get to know their child and to see what kind of person they would grow into as an adult.
Some parents never get over the loss of their toddler. In some cases, they might not want to have any more children because they’ll be too afraid of losing their next toddler as well. No parent should let the loss of their toddler ruin the rest of their life or their ambitions to have more children. There is no reason to think that their next toddler will die the same way. They are just lettering their pain cloud their better judgment. Perhaps it is impossible to replace the missing piece of their heart that comes from losing a toddler, but parents must go on and live their lives. They might even have other children who need them too.
A grief counselor will help parents understand that what happened was not their fault and that life must go on. It doesn’t mean they forget about their dead toddler. It just means they come to terms with the tragedy and take one step forward. Sometimes it takes a highly skilled counselor to be the voice of reason to a parent who keeps blaming themselves for their toddler’s death.
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Consultations
School Consultation
Say something interesting about your business here.School consultations are designed to support one particular student's educational progress or a classroom of students' progress. The consultations are meant to be collaborative between the current multidisciplinary educational team at the school and the consultant. The consultations may be designed to specifically address particular questions or educational concerns or include a more comprehensive assessment of individualized educational plan design, student learning, data-driven decision making, optimizing teaching techniques, and team approach to educational intervention.
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) and Behavior Intervention Plan Development (BIP) – Current thinking regarding challenging behavior recognizes the success of an intervention depends on understanding why a student responds in a certain way and teaching the student a more suitable method of getting that same need met. The process of uncovering why a student responds in a particular way is called a functional behavior assessment, or FBA. Conducting an FBA is the first step when starting to create a behavior support plan, and it helps all caregivers to understand what factors in the environment influence behavior. We provide extensive FBA's using cutting-edge instruments to provide norm-referenced and criterion-referenced based rating scales specifically designed to identify target behaviors, suggest potential underlying functions of the behaviors, and provide a broad-spectrum mental health screening in nine specific categories based upon current DSM criteria.
Program Development
The program development service is designed to work collaboratively with the professionals at existing or future program sites to incorporate empirically supported educational practices for students with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities.
Home-based Services
On-going consultation services are available to families seeking home-based ABA programs. We offer both local and distance consultation. While families may hire independent staff to work with their children, our model focuses on training parents who are committed to participating in and implementing effective teaching strategies to help their child reach their highest potential. Active parent participation is mandatory for consideration of this service model. Treatment plans address cognitive and behavioral skills, with emphasis on developing positive social-emotional relationships, as well as communication, functional life skills, and adaptive behaviors. Goals and learning objectives are created in collaboration with families. Treatment plans offer specific interventions and strategies in easy to understand language yet are evidence-based for use by parents and other caregivers.
Treatment is provided for children with an autism spectrum disorder or with related social or communication needs and is based on many empirically supported treatments. We incorporate the discipline of applied behavior analysis and the knowledge and understanding of typical child development in creating individualized programs.
Professional Case Reviews
BCBA and Applied Behavior Analysis related services
- Review of all records to provide feedback and expert analysis of case presented
- Provide legal testimony
- Advise physicians, various healthcare professionals, other behavior analysts, behavioral assistants, psychologists, education specialists, attorneys, etc.
- Professional second opinion
- Guide legal strategies
- Practical Advice
- Provide feedback on Ethics
- Cases can pertain to adults and children
- In-person consults provided in Pennsylvania and nearby states
- Phone, Long distance, video advisement available internationally
- Quality Assurance Assessments
- BCBA Supervision advisement available internationally
Organizational Behavior Management (OBM)
Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) applies the principles of applied behavior analysis and the experimental analysis of behavior to organizations to promote worker productivity and increase employee satisfaction. OBM examines the working environment and involves systems analysis, management, training, and performance improvement.
Organizational Behavior Management uses the study and application of knowledge about how people, individuals, and groups act in organizations. It does this by taking a behavior analysis approach. This means that it interprets people-organization relationships in terms of the whole person, whole group, whole organization, and the whole environment. Its purpose is to build better relationships by achieving individual objectives, organizational objectives, and social objectives. Organizational behavior encompasses a wide range of topics, such as human behavior, change, leadership, team-building, etc.
- Identify processes and pinpoint areas needing improvement
- Provide advisement on strategies to increase motivation, performance, and finances
- Facilitator of business meetings and focus groups
- Improve supervisory skills
- Enhance work settings and environments
- Observe and evaluate work environments, employee and customer service interactions/routines
- Gain positive perspectives with Applied Behavior Analysis principles
- Practical and objective advice provided
- Business Strategy Analysis
- Organizational Behavior Management (OBM)
Clinical Behavior Management (CBM) Uses the Philosophy of the Science of Human Behavior
- BCBA/BCABA supervision and mentoring, as well as clinical/corporate consultations.
- Planning, development, and implementation of individualized treatment plans using proprietary evidenced-based strategies and interventions.
- Discrete Trial and verbal behavior program development.
- Applied Behavior Analysis Home program development.
- Face-to-Face, Video, Telephone, and E-mail Conferences and Consultations.
- Provide IEP support, school, home, and community consultations.
- Development of Functional Behavior Analysis/Assessments and other assessments.
- Provider of proprietary behavioral data collection/data tracking system.
- Individual, group, and workshop sessions are available on BACB (bacb.com) task list topics.
- Communicate with the third party and public agency workers and submit reviews/reports as needed.
- Participate with management/administration in developing, implementing, and evaluating programs and services to maintain progressive and effective programming.
- Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and other staff meetings as necessary to develop and maintain effective communication and relationships.
- Consult with psychiatrists and psychologists as necessary.