Re:Does anyone know exactly what a parent trainer?

[Guest guest]

can anyone tell me exactly what they do? my sons school sent me a school psychlogist for the past 2 months, he did nothing except tell me how high my stress level is. now i am asking for his services to discontinue, and i want a real parent trainer as per everyone telling to get one of them, mean while i really dont know what they do.

thanks,

chris

[Guest guest]

> can anyone tell me exactly what they do? my sons school sent me a

school

> psychlogist for the past 2 months, he did nothing except tell me

how high my

> stress level is. now i am asking for his services to discontinue,

and i want a

> real parent trainer as per everyone telling to get one of them,

mean while i

> really dont know what they do.

> thanks,

> chris

Chris

I used to do home therapy and one of the components for one town i

worked in was s trictly parent training. What i did was ask the

parents what difficulties they were hving with their child or whta

are things they would like to work on ( ex: potty training). I was

not supposed to work one:one with the child but more with the

parents working with the child. I would make picture schedules for

bed time routines, teeth brushing. Sometimes i would go on community

trips to the dentist with the family or for a haircut. I would also

show parents how to run ABA sessions or floortime goals with thier

child. We would talk about behvaior intervention strategies( ignore,

intervene, redirect). I loved doing it but sometimes i did feel

unwanted by the parents because i am young and have no childrn of my

own and i felt as if parents thought i ws telling them how to raise

their kid. So just ona side note if you get a home trainign just

rember some of us may not have a child with autism but it is most

of our specialities and thats what our job is. I hope this helps

Feel free to emial me with any othe rquestions

Jessie

[Guest guest]

>he did nothing except tell me how high my stress level is<

Does this mean he was blaming things on you because you are stressed? Maybe I misunderstood.