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Theory of Mind Interventions to Develop Social-Emotional Skills from Carol Westby

Theory of Mind Interventions to Develop Social-Emotional Skills Improve Social & Academic Success from Infancy Through Adolescence from Carol Westby

Faculty:Carol Westby

Duration:6 Hours 19 Minutes | Format:Audio and Video

Archive : Theory of Mind Interventions to Develop Social-Emotional Skills from Carol Westby

Outline:

Foundations for ToM Development

ToM dimensions
Neuroanatomical/Neurochemical foundations for ToM types or dimensions
Genetic/environmental influences on ToM
DSM-5® diagnoses and comorbidities

Assessment of ToM Development

Formal and informal ways to assess ToM
Precursors in infants/toddlers
Emergence during preschool
Higher order ToM in school-age children and adolescents

Cognitive/Affective ToM and Interpersonal/Intrapersonal ToM

Patterns of ToM deficits and ToM developmental levels
Social and academic implications
Profiles to effectively match deficits to interventions

ToM Interventions for: Infants and Toddlers

Engage children in emotional sharing
Develop several types of joint attention
Promote coordination/co-regulation in interactions

Early Preschool

Develop a sense of self through play
Develop pretend play skills
Nurture foundations for autobiographical memory and the ability to think about the future

Late Preschool/Early Elementary

Foster the vocabulary and syntactic skills necessary for ToM
Identify cues and clues to help recognize and infer emotions of self and others
Promote language for counterfactual reasoning and mental time travel

Late Elementary/Adolescents

Strategies for emotional and behavioral regulation
Strategies to promote social and academic comprehension
Sentence frames to develop complex syntax for explaining reasons for emotions and behaviors

Deficits in Theory of Mind (ToM) are at the heart of social-emotional difficulties exhibited by those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Social Communication Disorders (SCD) and contribute to the social difficulties of children with Language Disorders (LD) and Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (DHH).

Description:

Featuring Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP: Internationally-renowned expert on Theory of Mind, play assessment and development, language-literacy relationships, and the developer of the Westby Play Scale!

Children with Theory of Mind (ToM) deficits lack social-reciprocity and perspective taking and struggle to make inferences about what others might do, think and feel. They have poor self-awareness and emotional regulation. Thus, they perceive the world they live in to be unpredictable putting them at a social and academic disadvantage. Your challenge as a therapist working with these children is to help them develop effective social-emotional functioning.

Join Theory of Mind expert, Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, and discover the developmental stages of ToM from precursors in infancy through higher-level thinking in adolescence. You will learn how to identify the patterns of ToM deficits and ToM developmental levels to effectively match intervention strategies to the child’s specific needs. Through video examples, children’s books and movies and pictures you will learn to design and implement strategies to develop the social-emotional underpinnings of ToM.

Salepage : Theory of Mind Interventions to Develop Social-Emotional Skills from Carol Westby