Ask Dr. Doreen - Dealing with Parental Stress
Autism Expert and pioneer in the field of Autism, Psychologist and BCBA, Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh is answering viewer questions about Dealing with Parental Stress and much more! Tune in and check it out!
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Recording Live @10am PT October 18, 2022
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15:02 How to Handle Defiance and Anger Escalation
Hello Dr. Doreen and Shannon. Please I need some help, my 12 yr old son took a knife from the kitchen and was standing looking at me, when I went close to him to take it away he said I\u2019m sorry. What happened before all this was that he was upset because every Sunday we let him pick a place to go to, park, restaurant, mall, etc and he also gets to eat fries which is his favorite, we\u2019ll the night before I checked his history on his tablet and found cartoons that he knows he can\u2019t watch became these cartoons show very inappropriate behaviors like beating people up and cursing, I have blocked the page so many times but somehow he manages to find it, so I took his phone and table away, that was the beginning of everything the next morning which is Sunday he kept asking for his tablet I said you can\u2019t use it yet, so he then started screaming, yelling and saying things like I want you to die mom, I\u2019m leaving the house and never coming back and proceeded to get dressed and try to go out, I stopped him and he then started screaming more, I told him that we were not going out that Sunday because of his behavior and I say on the couch that\u2019s when I heard him in the kitchen getting something and I told him to come to the living room, that\u2019s when I saw he had the knife in his hands, he said he was sorry and he didn\u2019t want to go to jail, I told him what he did was very bad, he proceeded to scream and cry. He has a psychiatrist he sees once a month, he\u2019s on Sertraline 25mg 1x a day. I\u2019m so devastated don\u2019t know what to do. I\u2019m also scared don\u2019t know if he would attempt to hurt me, normally he\u2019s always saying he loves me and wants hugs from me. Don\u2019t know what to do please give me some advice. Normally he\u2019s loving kid. Lately he hass been defiant, he curses and just want to do what he wants, but I never seen him do this before, I\u2019m so devastated, don\u2019t know what to think, say or do.
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29:48 Helpful Tips for Unwanted Dietitian Visits
I am going to a dietitian tomorrow and me and dietitians don't mix. I can\u2019t stand when people try to change my eating habits. I\u2019m going for medically controlled weight loss, and it\u2019s needed by my whole medical team, but I am afraid of lashing out or if I get told I can\u2019t eat my favorite things anymore I might have negative behavior. I know they are doing it for my own good, but I don't like being controlled. I don't wait to embarrass my mom and stepdad. please help me.
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38:42 How do you feel about older children watching younger programs?
We\u2019re big believers that we must try to keep our child moving forward. As autistics tend to be immature as they grow up.
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43:33 Do you have any advice on the Nemechek protocol?
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45:24 What to do When the School Takes Away Your Child\u2019s Biggest Reinforcer
I\u2019m working on this with the school right now, Quinton likes to use his hand drawings as reinforcements. He had one bad day, where he lost one of them, and he went a little extreme. That day they said no more pictures without giving him an alternate type of random reinforcement, they tried to say absolutely no pictures, it was a punishment, everyone in his circle disagreed with With a School said they wanted to do. I\u2019ve been taking a lot of data; this happened a week ago last Friday.
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46:47 I need tips on how to address a BCBA who is overworked. I have the most amazing RBT but the BCBA isn\u2019t giving enough attention to my sons programming. She is assigning goals but not being specific, so it leaves the RBT to interpret how the goal should be run instead of her modeling. During supervision little to no feedback is given even when we are looking at her for direction. Help!