The central challenge for us all, as therapeutic educators, is to discover the child’s truth, to openly acknowledge it, and to keep telling ourselves the child’s …
Empathy – IEP Goals
Empathy is the capacity to understand, experience and care about the emotions of others. This involves the ability to perceive emotion in others, the capacity to …
The Role of Staff Wellness in Implementing Therapeutic Programming
Helping staff stay therapeutic in a job that readily erodes one's therapeutic capacity. No educator or clinician can be perfectly therapeutic all the time and …
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Callous, Unemotional, and Coercive Behavior Scale
Ratings form for items such as: makes remarks that offend or hurt the feelings of others, unable or unwilling to express the appropriate feeling when making amends, …
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Empathy Building
These are examples of interventions designed to build empathy skills. Successful treatment requires full immersion, all day long across a multitude of routine …
Empathy Scale
Use this empathy rating scale to rate when someone becomes concerned when another child is upset, becomes sad when listening to a sad story, relates easily to the …