You are working with a child who has a strong negative reaction to touch but does nothing to modify the environment to avoid being touched by others. This is impacting the child-parent relationship. His mother states she doesn't know what to do to calm her son. You decide to increase your understanding of both the child's and mother's neurological thresholds and self-regulation strategies in order to develop an intervention strategy to improve the child-parent relationship. Which model does this most accurately represent?

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This scenario most accurately represents the Sensory Processing Model, as the child has a negative reaction to touch and may have difficulty processing sensory input. By increasing understanding of the child's and mother's neurological thresholds and self-regulation strategies, interventions can be tailored to improve the child's ability to process sensory information and ultimately improve the child-parent relationship.

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