Understand your highly sensitive child
In collaboration with researcher Esther Bergsma
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Exclusive podcast 'HSP talk' with high-sensitivity expert Esther Bergsma
Training Understand your highly sensitive child
Contents of this online training
Stinging labels in a shirt, loud noises on the street and the atmosphere in the home: in this session, HSP expert Esther discusses the sensitivity to stimuli of highly sensitive children. She also explains how these stimuli are processed in the brain and answers the question why highly sensitive children sometimes react so slowly.
In this session Esther explains how highly sensitive children process stimuli.
Sometimes they suddenly explode or you can no longer reach them. Highly sensitive children have different ways to get rid of their overstimulation. But what else does high sensitivity do to a child? And does it also have positive sides? You will learn it in this session.
Discover in this session how the characteristics of high sensitivity can also be very useful and useful.
In this session you will learn that high sensitivity resembles ADD or autism in some ways, but is really something different. Although the behavior that children show may be similar, the difference lies in the causes of that behavior.
HSP expert Esther Bergsma has developed a model that provides guidance when raising highly sensitive children: the BABA model. In this session she explains how the model works and how you can get started with it yourself.
Every child needs boundaries. And especially with highly sensitive children, it is important that you guard these boundaries. How do you approach this? These tips will help you further.
School can be a stumbling block for highly sensitive children. It is a vibrant environment full of stimuli and where a lot is expected of children. How do you choose a good school?
This session addresses a question about a highly sensitive child who finds it very difficult to deal with social contacts outside the school environment.
If several family members are highly sensitive, on the one hand this is easy. After all, you understand each other a lot better. But how do you ensure that not everyone is constantly overstimulated?
High sensitivity is a characteristic that sometimes gets in the way and sometimes is very useful. But it is good to realize that your child is more than just highly sensitive. It can also be curious, clumsy, enthusiastic, shy or funny. Ultimately, all these different qualities together make your child who he or she is. And the trick is to use that information to find out what suits your child. A highly sensitive child who is also curious will have to find a balance where there is enough new input, but it is not continuously overstimulated. Esther tells more about this in this session.
You now know what HSP is and how it characterizes your highly sensitive child, but it can sometimes still be quite a challenge to deal with this in practice. That is why in this session you will practice giving advice to others.
You have completed the entire training. We hope, of course, that the training has given you more clarity and guidance. Perhaps the training has stirred up emotions or you would like to talk to your loved one. In this last session you conclude with a reflection exercise.
Being there for a highly sensitive child
- Understanding your highly sensitive child
- How to approach raising a highly sensitive child
- Preventing overstimulation for the whole family
- Stimulate your child in the right way without overstimulation
This is what you get
- Access to 13 varied sessions in the online learning environment of Psychology Magazine
- Practical advice, exercises and background articles
- Inspiring videos and an in-depth podcast about the highly sensitive brain with expert Esther Bergsma
- Incl. insightful HSP fact sheet for yourself or those around you