How to Work in Collaboration With Your PDA Clients with Stacey Curnow

About this episode

The episode discusses collaboration techniques for working with PDA clients, featuring insights from therapist Stacey Curnow.

Ever wondered how to apply Dr. Ross Green's model of Collaborative & Proactive Solutions to your work with PDA clients? Today's guest, AuDHD mental health therapist Stacey Curnow, is writing a book about it with Dr. Green's collaboration and oversight. In today's episode, we talk about what exactly collaboration looks like in practice with PDA clients. We also dive into supporting parents, teaching daily living skills, supporting PDAers with aggressive behaviors, PDA kids in burnout, and so much more.

People in this episode

Host: Meg Ferrell

Guest: Stacey Curnow

Topics covered

• PDA clients
• collaboration
• mental health
• parent support
• daily living skills
• aggressive behaviors
• burnout

Keywords

• PDA
• collaborative solutions
• mental health therapy
• parenting support
• daily living skills
• aggression
• burnout

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