Functional disabilities and neurodiversity – common challenges when supervising students writing larger projects and where to find help. 

Course content:

Do you supervise students writing theses or other larger written home assignments?

In this webinar, Studenterrådgivningen (student counselling services) will draw on their psychological insights and extensive knowledge about neurodiverse students as well as students with psychological diagnoses. You will get an overview of common psychological functional disabilities and neurodiversity as well as explaining how these will typically affect student learning and their engagement with final projects. For example, students who experience psychological challenges may find it difficult to create structures and maintaining focus in their work, have difficulty managing their energy and finding a good pace, or struggle with regulating difficult emotions when they are under pressure?

The webinar aims to help you navigate between being an empathetic helpful person and a professional supervisor who has high professional standards and demands.

Furthermore, it provides an overview of the support options that the student have available to them, clarifies how the students are compensated and where/who the lectures can refer them to if needed.

Target group

Intended learning outcomes

After the webinar you will:

• Have learned about the common psychological functional disabilities and neurodiversity and how these will typically affect student learning and their engagement with final projects
• New approaches when meeting students who face these challenges
• Know how to support students by knowing about and being able to refer them to the support options available to them

Workload:

1,5 hour

1 h webinar and 30 min. Q&A with the SPS guidance team at CBS for any CBS specific questions.

Host:

Maria Storgaard, psychologist with the special educational support unit at Studenterrådgivningen After the session with Maria (1 hour), lectures will be introduced to the SPS-guidance officers at CBS (Anna Koefoed and Julie Lindskov Atterdag) and get an opportunity to ask CBS specific questions.

About the facilitator:

Studenterrådgivningen (Student Counselling Service) offers free social and psychological aid to students who are attending further and higher educations. 

We concurrently work to prevent discontentment and unhappiness among the students, which we for instance do by supporting the educational institutions’ work with study environment and the wellbeing of students.

Student Counselling Service offers Special Pedagogical Support (SPS) to students with psychological functional impairments as well as competency development for those who support students with psychological functional impairments.

The purpose of SPS is to ensure that people with physical or psychological functional impairments may complete an education on equal footing as other students. A psychological functional impairment can include anxiety disorders (e.g. OCD, PTSD), affective disorders (e.g. depression and bipolar), schizophrenia and other psychoses, personality disorders, eating disorders and developmental disorders (e.g. ADHD and autism).

https://srg.dk/english/the-student-counselling-service/organization

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