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Brain Needs Answers

3. World Around Me Needs: feel capable; feel I can overcome

difficulties; feel good about my strengths and ok about

difficulties; feel a sense of control; feel certain about what is

happening; feel certain about what is expected of me.

4. Executive Function of ‘Control Centre’ skills: Working

Memory; Thinking Speed; Flexible Thinking; Attention

Control; Impulse Control; Emotional & Energy Regulation.

Related skills: organization, using time, task initiation,

sequencing & prioritising; social cognition, empathy.

5. ‘Cups of Need’ is the model used to explain people’s different

levels of need. It shows different sized cups which need to be

filled ‘just right’ in order to feel ok and be at our best.