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Therapeutic rapport is essential when working with clients and client caregivers. This concept is often over-looked even though it is an essential aspect of success towards short- and long-term goals. When a positive therapeutic relationship is established, studies show more carry over, increased patient satisfaction, and expedited success towards treatment goals. Referrals made to pediatric therapists are often related to the self-regulation of the client. This may present itself as difficulties with self-control, social skills, transitioning, executive functioning, and attention to task. Once rapport is established, the client typically functions in a more open state and is more capable of working on self-regulatory skills. Working on self-regulation skills requires a multi-faceted approach with much patience, communication, clinical observations, as well as trial and error using sensory processing, cognitive, and occupation-based strategies. Addressing self-regulatory skills has shown to improve executive functioning and increase functional independence.
This course will provide easy-to-implement strategies which create a positive therapeutic relationship and optimal self-regulation of pediatric clients. Participants will correlate the relationship between patient rapport and self-regulation. Participants will define self-regulation and its connection to neurology, learning, and sensory processing and apply practical, research-based strategies to implement in therapy sessions.
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