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Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist

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Bosnian in UK AuDHD NoPlanetB. 325 ppm. #HumanRights #FBPE #BosnianGenocide #disability Psych doctoral student ❤️ everything Indigenous. Refugees matter. Melem za Dušu=Bosnian for soul soothing. Own views. Work / Activism DMs only.

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Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · Dec 15

I am a Bosnian displaced prsn currently specialising in child psychology.. Neurodivergent in a few ways. I work with some of the most vulnerable families in London. My research will be exploring what helps non speaking autistic children's families to flourish. I am looking for refugee psychologists.

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Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 1d

For professionals working with children, those "size of the problem" charts tell a child that a professional decides how large a problem is and how large their response should be. Would we be doing this to adults? Or say over 16s?

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 1d

Who decides (professionals or individuals) if fear of X is unreasonable/unfounded and therefore a person is anxious?

Gold standard anxiety treatment is CBT graded exposure. Will more of X make a person feel better?

Or is it a stress reaction or a trauma response?

Treatments vary a lot.

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Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile... climate change, widening wealth inequality gap, rise of the right wing, community breakdown, ongoing massive extinction, social dislocation as families struggle to survive, food insecurity, housing crisis, wars & genocides..

Nothing to see here, you are just anxious?

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 2d

On anxiety... imagine the general narrative was: you are experiencing relentless, unreasonable stress because life... (motions at the world)

How would that change the way situations are treated? The way professionals approached things? The way individuals felt?

Anxiety is a difuse, unfounded fear

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 3d

Anxiety is difuse and essentially unfounded. This is why it needs graded exposure to get better.

Trauma, stress, overwhelm, fear, exhaustion, burnout, reaction to physical body changes/medication etc. are all completely founded and need an entirely different support/treatment.

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 3d

On anxiety...

When you or someone you look after has a stomach ache, precision is vital to identify the cause, enabling the right help.

Anxiety responds to graded exposure, so asking if more exposure to x situation would ultimately help a person/myself feel better is a vital question. Be precise

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 3d

Here is an APA link to a definition. www.apa.org/topics/anxie... anxiety is difuse and it doesn't go away when removing x. Fear and stress are appropriate.

Q: WHO decides what is appropriate? WHO decides what is a traumatising experience? WHO gets to decide and WHO doesn't get to decide?

www.apa.org

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 3d

I remain puzzled why trauma response, stress from relentless pressure, physical issues like sensory overwhelm and tiredness, confusion and frustration from not understanding something, social issues due to problems in relationships, WHY are all these called anxiety. 🤔 they are all different states.

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Sean @shocktigan.bsky.social · 4d

Why is the conversation never about making school a pleasant place for children to be?

Creating a school system that children *want* to be present within is the only way to solve the problem of persistent absence

Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 4d

With schools facing problems with persistent absence, @greeborunner.bsky.social shares advice on making sure that gaps in attendance don’t translate into gaps in learning

How to ‘absence-proof’ your curriculum

As schools across the country struggle to tackle persistent absence, Zoe Enser offers advice on how to make sure any gaps in attendance don’t translate to gaps in learning

www.tes.com

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Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Jo. It is good to hear there isn't a set way of going about it.

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 4d

Has anyone got an EP job in spring / summer of y3, or do TEPs really need to look at the start of y3? What is the done thing?

I am catching up with my thesis and focusing on a new placement.

My inner freelancer (15+ yrs) is saying bish bash bosh and my inner EP is being thoughtful & reflective.

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 4d

The reason I raise stress or slow trauma is because I wonder if our solutions would be different.
I'm CBT trained & AuDHD. We know for example that graded exposure doesn't work for neurodiverget sensory overwhelm. Children might also be getting retraumatised if solutions ignore social slow trauma?

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 4d

Genuine Q..
1. APA defines anxiety = all pervasive, difuse, unfounded fear
2. Graded exposure is the gold standard treatment
3. 6 yrs of my SEMH practice based evidence is that children are overwhelmed

Ergo

EBSNA = HPA axis activation due to stress and slow trauma?

Ergo

New approach needed?

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 9d

This has been increasingly clear for a long time, but it’s good to see reference to advancing research in the mainstream media. #psychology @bpsofficial.bsky.social

Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists

Those diagnosed as small children typically have distinct genetic profile from those diagnosed later, study finds

www.theguardian.com

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Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 9d

I have kept my autism going with daily paracetamol (for chronic pain normally) 😂😂 apologies for jesting but yes it is polycausal because humans are complex.

I remain throughly astonished at blatant reductionism in a lot autism research and especially interventions. Addressing it in my research.

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 9d

Educational Psychology Thesis directory. #SEND #parent #carer do search through and read. Often abstract and discussion are enough to get the gist. There is also a directory st BPS, and at British Library. You don't need a permission to be an educated advocate for your child / young adult. SENDmama

Dr Dan O'Hare @edpsydan.bsky.social · 9d

Oh nice Jill!

Would you wanna add to the thesis directory?

edpsy.org.uk/thesis-direc...

Thesis directory - edpsy.org.uk

edpsy.org.uk

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for keeping at this Sean...

I am lost for polite words.

"Human animals" ... then again they called us that too. (See Srebrenica)

Labour have some thinking to do.

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 9d

I need to read the article but first thought is that anything which reduces a whole human being to tick boxes is inherently problematic. Behaviourist research on captive animals doesn't even tell us about how animals behave naturally. We know this from "rich environment" studies. As for ethics...

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 9d

I am a day late but wanted to mark the Orange Shirt Day, remembering 6509 (found so far) Indigenous children murderd in Indian Residential Schools across Turtle Island (North America).

One would be too many.

Genocide is systematic and deliberate.

All children have a right to life. All children

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 9d

Reading about 252 different possible answers LLMs could give reminded me of podcast bros stating they know what women want, or any time anyone assigning feelings to another person without asking them.

It is a no for me on all 3 counts.

Main Q: who does it serve to use AI sampling?

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 10d

#appropriation #balance

If modern/Western psychology has other cultural ideas in it, including Indigenous, then wouldn't it be right for them to be explicitly named?

What would the psychology curricula here in England, at school and uni, look like if Global South theories were included?

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you very much Niki. I will have a look.

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 11d

#autistic #adhd #research #student
OK folks how do you stop yourself going on side quests / learning everything so you can know something? Serious Q.

@autisticphd.com writes about this ❤️ their dolphin theory. Rachel Cullen has concrete language theory, which explains a bit too.

Send help!! Ta.

Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 11d

#Indigenous #decolonise #psychology #sociology #policy #autism #joy

Hello bsky... I am after # topics above theses or papers that use storytelling and other creative methods in the write up. Looking for inspiration.

Also, I need to clone myself to do the reading.

Thank you.

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Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks Jill for the encouragement 😊 Yes, that is pretty much what I am doing.