Strengths-Based Approaches: How to Deeply Center Passions
with Dr. Kristie Patten
06/19/2024
In this episode (a repeat of one of our earliest episodes, episode 4), Dr. Kristie Patten takes us to the foundations of what it means to be strengths-based and the impact that it has on the lives of our Autistic clients. Dr. Kristie Patten is Counselor to the President and professor of occupational therapy at NYU and the Principal Investigator of NYU Steinhardt’s NEST Project, supporting New York City Public Schools’ largest inclusion program in the United States for Autistic students. In this episode Dr. Patten shares why it’s really easy to be a bad therapist and really hard to be a good one (plus some concrete steps to take to help get us there!)
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Show Notes
- Sign up for the free 10 day challenge, Neurodiversity-Affirming Practices in Action:
- A Treatment Planning Party with Your New Therapy Besties
- Find Kristie Patten at: https://www.nyu.edu/about/leadership-university-administration/office-of-the-president/kristie-patten.html
- Read Kristie’s article, Authentic Strength-Based Practice: Can Neurotypical Professionals Make a Paradigm Shift?
- Learn more about Kristie’s work and the programs she’s involved in:
- 2022 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture : Finding our Strengths: Recognizing Professional Bias and Interrogating Systems
- Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture : Finding our Strengths: Recognizing Professional Bias and Interrogating Systems
- IDEAS: Inventing, Designing, and Engineering on the Autism Spectrum
- Keeping it Real
- Check out the film Life Animated, based on the story of Owen Suskind
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