A Common Goal: Fostering Empathetic Relationships Within a Child’s Team
(Room 552A)
12 Nov 26
2:45 PM
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3:45 PM
Tracks:
Conflict Resolution: Resolving Challenges
To deliver impactful care, a child’s team must work as a cohesive, trusting, and therapeutic network. Distrust, bias, frustration, miscommunication, cultural norms, opposing expectations, and trauma can all influence one’s approach to members of the team. These influences often lead to breakdowns in communication and can negatively impact the autistic child. This presentation addresses, from both the family and professional perspective, causes of these communication breakdowns, and strategies for repairing and preventing them. Through an empathetic understanding of each person’s experience, a therapeutic and effective team will emerge.