Course content
How can I, as a parent, understand my child’s diagnosis?
This course focuses on how parents can understand their child’s diagnosis or diagnoses. Questions may arise such as: Is my child still the same? Does the diagnosis now define our family norms and values? Can we still live our lives as before? Are there considerations I need to make for my child that I don’t need to make for his/her siblings?
How do I best talk to my child about what is difficult?
This course will focus on conversation techniques and tools to equip you with how to talk to your child about the diagnosis and the rest of the child’s daily life.
Often, receiving a diagnosis comes with many vulnerable emotions and realizations. The child needs help understanding what the diagnoses mean for him/her. Perhaps there has been significant distress and decline in functioning for the child leading up to an assessment, which always affects both the child and the parents.
What can I do as a parent when my child doesn’t attend school?
This course delves theoretically and practically into how to work with and around involuntary school absenteeism. There is often a significant anxiety issue associated with a child’s school absenteeism, and parents often face a very big task with this anxiety at home. It can be difficult to navigate. The course focuses on, among other things, how parents and schools can work constructively together. It’s not easy, and it requires trust, but it can succeed if there is a respectful collaboration where feelings of powerlessness do not take over for both parents and the school.