K-Now Behavioral Solutions & K-Now Educational Solutions的动态

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Welcome to be in the know with Kay Now. As practitioners, we have a big responsibility not only to our clients but also to their families and caregivers. As we know, all parents have days of struggle, but often parents of children with developmental challenges have especially stressful loads, increasing overall levels of anxiety and depression, and it sometimes feels like practitioners may be solely focusing. On their child, which can sometimes make a caregiver feel a little clueless in what is going on in their treatment, and we don't want that to happen. It's really important that as practitioners, we need to pay attention to our caregivers to ensure that there is a overall general feeling of well-being and that we can recognize the levels of stress that they experience. And also knowing that when they are feeling those high levels of stress that it can decrease their involvement within their child's program. Now, we do know that the increasing the results in early intervention programs have a lot of, there's a lot of different variables. However, caregiver involvement can really result in huge, huge steps forward for both the child and the entire family. Um, this helps the child when we have that caregiver involvement, helps the child to generalize, generalize their skills across different environments and it also helps the entire family unit really gain confidence now. It is important that we provide families with quality services and this does include listening to the entire family's needs. We should be talking about what interventions that they feel would be socially acceptable to them. We need to really look at what the caregivers primary concerns are and figure out a way that we make sure that we are being understanding of those needs even though as a behavior. Analysts, we may want to focus on something else, but we need to have a conversation and find out why goals are important to them and what those goals may be. And what this does is not only helps the client, but it also helps the caregiver in having some buy in and building their confidence in their program and in their choices. Now, what happens when a plan isn't successful and the caregiver level. Practitioners really need to maybe look inward a little bit when we're looking at why things are happening. It really could be that we maybe had focused on a goal that wasn't of interest to the caregiver and they weren't implementing that goal or that intervention at home as we were in the clinic or in our sessions. Did we look at what the available resources were for that family? This can be anywhere from time. To knowledge, have we provided them the things that we need? Also, have we appropriately and adequately have conversations with them about how to help them learn specific ABA terms or procedures or things like that, that they need to be successful? And then how often are we checking in with those caregivers and parents and how often are we allowing them to give us feedback and then are we implementing that feedback? I can, I can get feedback all day. If I don't implement the feedback I'm hearing, how am I going to be successful not only as a practitioner, but also be successful to my clients? So we want to remember that as practitioners, we want to be empathetic and compassionate, and we do that through our words and actions. We need to remember that everyone has a different level of capacity and most parents are truly doing the best they can with what they currently. Have available to them now. It is important that knowing that we build this partnership that as practitioners and and with those caregivers, we can really help to improve the quality of life not only for our client, but also for that entire family. Remember, if you have questions about caregivers, if you have questions about how you can be a practitioner and implement some really compassionate care into the caregiver training, let us know. And remember, stay in the know. With K now.