TPP 303: Dr. Joseph Lee Talks About the Importance of SEL / Social and Emotional Learning
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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If we were all aware of our own sort of needs, physically, emotionally, which is part of this like emotional intelligence piece, we recognized similar needs and feelings in other people. And then we can have relatability, connection, empathy, that would be the social intelligence piece. Then one, I think we'd all get along better and be a lot more caring, compassionate people. But two, for example, learning about history, then you could see like, oh, I can see how that went wrong. I could see how that sort of conflict happened between people because they couldn't acknowledge that somebody else's worldview or perspective was fundamentally different from theirs. And they saw that as a problem that you didn't see it the same way.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber. One of the things I've been thinking a lot about over the past year is the importance of SEL, or social and emotional learning, in classrooms, as well as a recent increase in parental and political pushback that is putting the future of SELs in schools at risk. I wanted to get into a deep conversation about SEL for this show. And so I reached out to Dr. Joseph Lee, a psychiatrist with a special interest in social and emotional learning and helping people achieve what he calls optimal mental healthiness. We had exactly the conversation I was hoping for as we got into so many important topics, including the state of children and young adults' mental health today, demystifying what SEL or social emotional learning actually is, how it's best introduced in schools,
the limitations in the current educational model for social-emotional learning curriculums, what the pushback against SEL is really about, and what's at stake if our children aren't provided with social and emotional learning opportunities. I think this is such an important and timely conversation. I hope you enjoy it and that you help me amplify this episode by sharing it in your communities and with others who would benefit from the listen. And a little bit more about my guest, Joe is a psychiatrist in private practice in Redondo Beach, California. He's also an educator in social and emotional learning and provides individual and group supervision to licensed therapists looking to add mental healthiness and SEL principles to their own practices.
He has a medical doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. Thanks so much. And here is my conversation with Dr. Joseph Lee about social and emotional learning. Hey, Joe, welcome to the podcast.
Hi, Debbie. Thanks for having me.
Yeah, I am really looking forward to this conversation and so happy we were able to squeeze it into the summer season because I think it's a really important topic. It's very current, a lot to get into. But before we do that, I always ask my guests to introduce themselves in their own way. And also as part of that, I love this idea of learning more about your personal why, what got you into doing this work and what you love about doing it so much.
My broad sort of professional background is that I am a psychiatrist, but my actual day-to-day clinical practice, which is not the case for most psychiatrists, is that day-to-day practice is as a therapist. So I kind of do both. But I am a full-time therapist. I have a full-time private practice. I've been doing that now, including my residency for over 20 years. So professionally, that's sort of my background. And then after sort of my formal training, starting my psychotherapy practice a few years early on is when I became a parent, which is an interesting sort of transformative life process, right? And then I think as you raise kids, then sometimes... The things that you might have learned, I don't know, more academically about child development, you know, what helps people thrive?
What is it really to be like mentally healthy? They all kind of feel like super relevant because now you got your own kid and you kind of want to do right by them.
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