TIL 459: Psychological Terminology on the Autism Spectrum (feat. Johanna Pressley)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
1. How to identify traits of level one Autism
2. How psychological terminology proves problematic
3. How to use biblical terminolog
4. How awareness of autistic traits helps communication within counseling
5. How Scripture guides thinking
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| 0:00.0 | psychological terminology on the autism spectrum on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:18.3 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people |
| 0:21.5 | face. This week on the podcast, I'm delighted to introduce you all to Joanna Presley. She is a wife and |
| 0:29.1 | mother of three young children. She holds a Masters of Arts in Biblical Counseling from the Master's |
| 0:34.0 | University. She's been blessed to be able to serve many people affected by |
| 0:38.0 | autism, even in her own family, and as a Bible teacher in an inclusive Christian school, |
| 0:43.5 | and as a counselor at the Low Country Biblical Counseling Center in Charleston, South Carolina. |
| 0:48.6 | Joanna, even before we came on live, we were getting to know one another, and really appreciate |
| 0:52.9 | a part of your story. I'm looking forward to our time together. So welcome today. Thank you. I'm glad to be here. |
| 0:58.5 | Yeah, looking forward to this discussion. You know, this is a discussion where when the issue of |
| 1:03.0 | autism or autism spectrum or what used to be known as Asperger's comes up, people get sort of |
| 1:08.4 | wide-eyed and they're not sure what to say. Absolutely. Where to go, what to think about. |
| 1:12.8 | And this topic, all of a sudden this word is introduced into your household. |
| 1:18.3 | I want you to give, if you can, like a case study example of how it could be for biblical |
| 1:23.2 | counselors to be aware of these types of traits that we see with level one autism. Absolutely. So |
| 1:29.6 | you're going to deal with this differently with maybe a mother and a child versus a husband and wife. |
| 1:35.9 | So a husband and wife situation is going to be more difficult. And the difficult thing, |
| 1:40.4 | especially with level one autism, is that you can't immediately see what's going on. And that is |
| 1:45.9 | what makes it tricky. So imagine you're dealing with a husband and wife. Let's say the husband has a |
| 1:51.0 | trait described as abnormal prosody. So that's where he is unable to recognize patterns of speech, |
| 1:57.0 | like loudness, pitch, intensity, tempo. So the husband and the wife are both unaware that the husband has this. |
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