Nathan Ory
When you see confusion offer a peaceful, helping hand
Nathan is an international speaker and has published the second edition of his book, Working with People with Challenging Behavior: A guide for maintaining positive relationships (2007). Nathan contributes articles to the web sites www.fasdconnections.ca and www.autismtodayory.com.
- Functional analysis of behavior
- Direct counselling
- Caregiver training about effect of cognitive disability on person's coping ability
- Emotional management strategies
- Maintaining peaceful co-existence
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Developmental disability
- Mentally handicapping conditions
- Children, adolescents and adults
Background
Nathan Ory is Registered Psychologist in BC who recently left an interdisciplinary Developmental Disability Mental Health team to pursue a full time private consultation and training practice.
Prior to this Nathan worked at a residential institution for persons with mental handicap, at a residential facility for children with emotional disability, and taught practical psychology courses for several years at a community college.
Nathan has a Master’s degree in psychology from Ohio State University. He did his undergraduate work at Georgia State in Atlanta. Nathan is a dual citizen of Canada and the US.
Working with people with challenging behavior: Chapter headings
- Introduction to values and methods
- Agitation, stress and panic behavior
- Resistive behavior
- Dependent and functionally dependent behavior
- Persistent, repetitive behavior
- Impulsive behavior
- Socially disruptive, attention-seeking behavior
- Emotionally fragile and reactive behavior
- Violent, aggressive and destructive behavior
- Challenging sexual behavior
- Appendices with practical articles
Articles in the public domain
- www.fasdconnections.ca
- www.autismtodayory.com
Contact Nathan Ory
Reach Nathan for assistance with your behavior consultation and staff training requirements at challengingbehavior@shaw.ca and at (250) 743-1667
Functional behavior analysis through detailed history and observation determines
- Expectations appropriate to cognitive age
- Approaches relevant to emotional age
- Training methods to support developmental realities
- Functional behaviors that could respond to structure
- Functional behaviors that could respond to training specific skills
- Alteration of approaches to support specific cognitive dysfunction
- Identification of developmental brain dysfunction
- Analysis of areas of persistent functional dependence
- Recognition of "triggers" and emotionally conditioned responses
- Indications of mental illness
- Creation of training document clarifying the experience of being the individual