Soul Returns to Preschool
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My work for my last 13 years as a psychology was in Early Intervention. In EI the children are three- to five-years-old. Many people say to me, “How could children so young require the services of a psychologist?” My response is, “If you knew how many children were being kicked out of preschool, you would be amazed and hopefully appalled” but that is a different book. In this one I want to describe my efforts toward an undivided life, integrating my professional and spiritual lives.My faith requires of me: radical honesty, truth-telling, and a principled life. My employer required of me: relative pragmatic legalism. Those often conflict. I will share a bit about a case to illustrate.I did a re-evaluation for Willard, a child in our autism support program. His teacher was concerned because he did not seem to be a child with autism. Since I was the psychologist covering that classroom, I did the re-evaluation. Not imagining that the parent would be unhappy about finding out their child did not have autism, I proceeded in the usual routine way. Suddenly mid-stream I learned that the parent had put in a complaint that the autism diagnosis was being removed. Nothing prepared me for the moment when I discovered a mother who was upset to find that her child did not have autism.Then I discovered that this was not the first complaint the mother had made. In the child’s initial evaluation, he was found not to have autism, even though a developmental pediatrician had diagnosed him. But, unwilling to fight with a parent, my bosses had determined the best course of action was to give the child the diagnosis as a mediation concession.My boss was not willing to fight with her because it would be very expensive and we would lose. I was not given a choice in the matter. Twice, a child was given the diagnosis of autism as a mediation concession.I have been radically honest desp
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