ASD, OCD or SPD? Which is the Best Fit for your Child?
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights by Barbara Lester, LCSW With certain children, it can be hard to tell the difference between an autism spectrum disorder (ASD),...
View Article5 Steps to Help a Child with Unwanted Thoughts
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Most children experience ‘bad’ thoughts but easily disregard them. However, some children and teenagers pay too much importance to...
View ArticleCompulsive Checking – Two Games to Help a Child Think Differently
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Children who repeatedly check are often watchful of what’s happening around them. They take care to make sure things are okay,...
View ArticleTeachers: 5 Signs to Spot a Child’s Contamination Fears
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterised by intrusive thoughts, impulses and images that regularly play on the child’s...
View Article3 Steps to Help a Child Overcome Irrational Fears
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Does your child worry about space, earthquakes, dying and the afterlife? Do they fear the unknown when faced with being alone in...
View Article3 Strategies to Help a Child Cope with Death and Tragedy Obsessions
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Most children who worry about death and tragedy can usually be appropriately reassured. However, when children repeatedly fret...
View ArticleAddress Trauma in Children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Nine year old James had been in a car accident with his father. Shortly after the accident, James started experiencing negative...
View ArticleOCD: Children and Magical Thinking
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights A concerned mother shares, “My 12 year old son thinks something bad will happen to me if he doesn’t do what OCD (Obsessive The post...
View ArticleRaising Awareness of PANDAS/PANS Syndromes in Children
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Today marks PANDAS/PANS Awareness Day. “PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal...
View Article#OCDWeek – Honoring OCD Awareness Week
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View ArticleHow to Help a Child Overcome Defecation Phobia
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Children with defecation phobia form a vicious circle that often involves withholding a bowel movement for days followed by a bowel...
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