EP53. Encouraging Bodily Autonomy and Body Safety, with Dr. Etta Brodersen
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
EP53. Dr. Brodersen explains to us why fostering bodily autonomy in children is important, how to do it, and what not to do. The second half of the conversation is focused on body safety. She shares some eye opening statistics regarding childhood sexual abuse, and provides information about how to approach body safety with your children and how to set appropriate boundaries.
Trigger warning: The second half of this episode includes a conversation about childhood sexual abuse.
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| 1:34.7 | Welcome to the mom room podcast. My name is Renee Rina and I am definitely the mom friend you have always wanted. So yes, today I am talking to Edda Broderson, who is a PhD-level |
| 1:42.8 | clinical forensic psychologist. |
| 1:45.2 | Her research and clinical work involves individuals in the justice system. |
| 1:50.4 | She works at an outpatient clinic for provincial offenders who were convicted for |
| 1:55.2 | sexual or sexually motivated offenses and are serving their probation orders. She did want to point out that she's not a |
| 2:04.1 | child psychologist. She's trained to work with teens and adults, but she does have knowledge |
| 2:10.0 | within child psychology, attachment theory, and developmental psychology. So I had a quick question for you. People's reaction, like what is people's |
| 2:20.8 | typical reaction when you say that you work with people who have sexual offenses? Oh, that's a |
| 2:28.7 | fun one. Yeah. I don't get the best reactions to that one. Yeah. considering that it is a huge stigmatized population. |
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