Data Session: 7th October, Tiffany Hutchins: Topicalising and negotiating challenging situations with ‘comic strip conversations’

DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as an online data session:
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Session details: Comic strip conversations (CSCs; Gray, 1998) incorporate drawing, writing, and conversation as major components of the activity, and they use a basic set of symbols (e.g., talking and thinking bubbles) to make explicit what people say and think. The use of CSCs is a dynamic intervention process that is intended to allow a child to revisit and elaborate on a past personal experience (including challenging and successful social experiences), highlighting the talking and thinking around different events that lead to behavioral responses and different people’s thoughts, emotions, and perspectives.
For the intervention in which Patrick and his parents participated, CSCs were presented on multiple occasions. Each CSC focused on the theme of conflict (and how to successfully overcome it) between Patrick and Brendon. Although the theme was constant, the specific situations recounted and analyzed varied and were usually determined by Patrick in collaboration with the clinician and a parent who was able to report on recent instances that had occurred in the home. In total, Patrick participated in 12 CSCs, aligning with the recommendation that Social Stories and CSCs be administered with repetition.

Transcript on request.