To consider the complexity of regulation a multidimensional approach is necessary where developmental processes provide the anchor for understanding an individual’s capacities for self-regulation, variability, and resilience. The DIR Model (Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship Based Model) created by Greenspan and Wieder, will provide the conceptual framework that integrates neurologically based sensory processing and individual differences, with environmental impact, stress and emotions. This session will discuss the challenges to diagnosis and how emotional experience can support or derail self-regulation, from confidence, self-awareness and flexibility to anxiety, fear, fragmentation and more. Symbolic function is an essential process for sustaining regulation and sense of self. How children climb the symbolic ladder and use interactive play to develop and work out regulatory challenges will be illustrated through case examples drawn from ASD and SPD.
Presented at the 21st International Symposium in Atlanta, GA.
Presented live and recorded October 2018.
The views expressed in the following presentation are those of the presenter and do not necessarily reflect those of STAR Institute.
Level: Intermediate
Length: 2 1/2 hours
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Learning Objectives:
- Describe the developmental processes of the DIR Model
- Describe how they each contribute to capacities for regulation
- Identify experiences that derail regulation and strategies for recovery
- Explain why multidimensional approaches such as DIR and RDoC are important for clinical reasoning and treatment planning
- Explain the benefits of interactive play and symbolic function for sustaining regulation
Presenter:
Dr. Wieder is a clinical psychologist who pioneered approaches to diagnosing and treating infants and toddlers with infant mental health and developmental disorders, starting with her work with Stanley Greenspan on a six year NIMH study reported in Multi-Risk Families. This led to co-chairing the Task Force on the first edition of DC 0-3 and developing the DIR Model. They later published The Child With Special Needs, Engaging Autism and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health.Dr. Wieder also developed approaches to integrate visual-spatial knowledge to advance emotional and cognitive development published in Visual Spatial Portals to Thinking, Feeling, and Movement with Harry Wachs, O.D.
She publishes and presents extensively, both nationally and internationally on developmental approaches to relationship based parent-mediated intervention for ASD. Her current research interests concern fidelity of DIR and follow up studies of persons treated by the DIR Model. She is currently writing a book on symbolic function bridging IMH and Development.
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