PSP: 393: Helping Autistic Kids Who have OCD with Jan Stewart
AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It can be hard enough to help a child with OCD, but what if they are autistic as well? It can be confusing to figure out where autistic traits end and OCD compulsions begin. It can also be a struggle to navigate two worlds that don’t always intersect.
That is why I was thrilled to invite Jan Stewart to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Jan is a highly regarded mental health and neurodiversity advocate and mom to two, now grown children with multiple diagnoses.
She is the author of Hold on Tight: A Parent’s Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I sat down with Jan to discuss how parents can decipher autistic traits from OCD compulsions, how ERP is adapted for autistic children and how to take care of ourselves and our other relationships while trying to stay afloat.
Resources:
Check out Jan Stewart’s book Hold on Tight: A Parent’s Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness.
Jan Stewart’s column in Today’s Parent
IOCDF Special Interest Group OCD and Autism
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:12.0 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.0 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there, |
| 0:23.3 | and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today, I have a fantastic |
| 0:30.1 | speaker and parent and advocate who's going to help us understand how do you help autistic kids who have OCD? |
| 0:40.3 | Jan Stewart has so much lived experience dealing with the struggles of having multiple kids with |
| 0:50.0 | co-occurring issues. She is a highly regarded mental health and neurodiversity advocate. |
| 0:57.2 | She has written an incredible honest memoir called Hold On Tight, a parent's journey, |
| 1:02.8 | raising children with mental illness. And she describes her emotional roller coaster, |
| 1:07.7 | parenting two kids with multiple mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders. |
| 1:12.1 | She is on a mission to inspire and empower parents to persevere through the most difficult |
| 1:17.9 | times and have hope, as well as better educate families and friends and healthcare professionals, |
| 1:23.7 | educators, even employers. She chairs the board of directors at Carey's Place |
| 1:28.1 | Autism Services, which is Canada's largest autism services provider. She was previously |
| 1:33.5 | vice chair at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health. She has spent most of her career as a |
| 1:38.5 | senior partner with the global executive search firm, Egon Zedner, which I might have mispronounced. |
| 1:43.3 | She is a fantastic and motivating |
| 1:45.8 | speaker. We actually had her come to the AT parenting community, which is my membership community. |
| 1:52.5 | And I do like to bring in guest speakers when I can, who can speak with more expertise in areas that are out of my wheelhouse. And I'm certainly |
| 2:05.0 | not an autistic therapist or an autistic specialist, although it does overlap. We have lots of people |
| 2:10.9 | in the community who have kids with a lot of co-occurring issues and struggles. And so I do bring in guest speakers. And she was a |
| 2:20.6 | phenomenal guest speaker. We had a really big show up for show up. Was that wrong? That's probably |
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