[humanser] Greetings and regarding Duls fables

[JD TOWNSEND]

Hi and welcome:


This is not directly responsive, but may be close.  I have a series of 
guided relaxation and guided imagery audio tracks that I have used with 
elementary school children.  After some time I found that the results seemed 
to work with learning self soothing and positive decision making to older 
kids as well.  In the end I found that certain of the exercises were helpful 
to a woman in her 80's.  Likewise play therapy, clearly identified with 
treatment for younger children, has applications for adults as well.  My 
biggest problem in using child techniques was allowing myself to encourage 
such behavior from grown-ups.  When I have run multi-family groups (love 
them) a part of treatment was encouraging play between parents and children.

Narrative is a good diagnostic tool, but is also and excellent form of 
therapy.

Best of luck.





JD Townsend, LCSW
Daytona Beach, Florida, Earth, Sol System
Helping the light dependent to see.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerardo Corripio" <gera1027 at gmail.com>
To: "humanser list" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:47 PM
Subject: [humanser] Greetings and regarding Duls fables


> Hi listers: I'm Gerardo from Mexico; blind, Psychology major, 70% hearing
> loss but an able to hear farily well with hearing aids and have private
> practice. I'm looking forward to learning about diferent alternative
> techniques that will surely help me out in my work thanks to the list, 
> thus
> my debut question.
> I'm using the Duls fables which involves reading stories and the patient 
> has
> to put an end to the story: depending on the ending I'm able to determine
> how the child is in the areas the stories measure. My question is then is
> there an equivalent to the Duls fables that I could use with adults? or is
> it ok to use the Duls fables with adults as well? Though I was formed 
> using
> the Humanistic approach, I'm wanting to incorporate other tools and 
> theories
> to make my work (and the patient's experience) more enjoyable, thus my
> question.
> Thanks beforehand for any ideas and again I'm really looking forward to
> learning from yu guys and vice versa, especially from the perspective of
> being in a country where there's no NFB Human Services devision and where 
> I
> have to transcribe into Braille questionaires and other material you guys
> can obtain readily in Braile in the States. Certainly I've had some 
> stories
> to tell regarding my job.
> Gerardo
>
>
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