Perspective on NPD

Lina Cohen, MD and psychologist for AcadeMedia’s upper secondary school segment, and Therése Saksø, head physician for AcadeMedia’s primary schools, discuss medical perspectives on neuropsychiatric disabilities with Beppe. What happens in the body and how can we best meet needs and alleviate concerns? 

Reflection questions 

In what way can you/your organisation benefit from the knowledge provided in the treatment pyramid? How can you/your organisation use this in practice and within the framework of your school’s mission? 

Which issues around medical perspectives of NPD create the most questions and uncertainty for you/your organisation? 

How could you work to create an understanding of the medical perspectives around NPD and common approaches regarding how we meet the needs of children and students? 

Thinking about the above, what is easy and what is more challenging? 

How could you further develop your work in this area?  What outcomes do you want to achieve? How will you know when you’ve succeeded?

Beppe interviews Pernilla Engqvist Widegren, headteacher at Klara Theoretic upper secondary school and Oliver Ylvenius, principal at Klara Stockholm East. They discuss creating an organisational ethos that meets the support and stimulation needs of all children and students.  

Reflection questions 

Which questions regarding organizational perspectives on NPD create the most questions and uncertainty for you/your organisation? 

How do you/could you work to create good organizational conditions to support and prioritise the needs of children and students? 

 Thinking about the above, what is easy and what is more challenging? 

 How could you further develop your work in this area?  What outcomes do you want to achieve? How will you know when you’ve succeeded?

In this film, Beppe leads a conversation with David Granlund, teacher at Vittra Telefonplan, and Hanna Rondahl, special pedagogue for AcadeMedia elementary school’s central student health department, about how we in education can concretely use encouragement and prevention to create an accessible learning environment for everyone. 

Reflection questions 

Which questions regarding learning-related perspectives at NPD create the most questions and uncertainty for you/your organisation? 

How do you/could you create good education practices that support and prioritise the needs of all children and students? 

Thinking about the above, what is easy and what is more challenging? 

 How could you further develop your work in this area?  What outcomes do you want to achieve? How will you know when you’ve succeeded?