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# Reframing Predictability

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Season 2: Episode 9

 

reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, and Lindsay Garrett, LCSW, talk about working with parents to show them how to offer predictability to their children in their day-to-day lives. 

 

We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours.

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**Lindsay Garrett**, LCSW is the Post Adoption Specialist at the Gladney Center for Adoption. She works with Gladney's New Beginnings families and adoptees by helping find resources or talking through behaviors, or talking with parents who are struggling. 

 

**Show Notes:**

In this episode, we talked about:

- The reasons children (especially children from a traumatic background) need predictability.
- Routines lead to predictability.
- Using visual clues for transitions, routines, and predictability.
- Parents journal the routines and responding behaviors.

**Links and Resources Mentioned:**

- [How to be a Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute](https://amzn.to/3dPCxMa)  
  by KJ Dell'Antonia
- [Post Adoption Support](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/post-adoption-support)<https://www.gobbelcounseling.com/>

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