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Therapeutic Considerations for Autistic Clients (1 CE)

Neurodiversity-affirming care has emerged as an important framework for supporting autistic clients in mental health settings. Research and lived-experience literature have highlighted ways in which historically dominant approaches to autism have contributed to stigma, masking, minority stress, and other negative outcomes. This course reviews current research related to neurodiversity-affirming care for autistic adults and examines distinctions between traditional models of care and neurodiversity-affirming approaches.


In addition to reviewing the evidence base, this course explores practical clinical strategies that may be incorporated into psychotherapy with autistic clients. Topics include strengths-based formulation, collaborative treatment planning, identity-affirming interventions, accommodations for sensory and communication differences, and strategies for addressing shame, masking, and autistic burnout. Participants will evaluate the evidence supporting these approaches and consider how neurodiversity-affirming principles may inform treatment planning and therapeutic decision-making with autistic clients.


This course consists of a 45-minute recorded lecture and a 15-minute post-lecture learning activity and provides 1 continuing education credit.

Cost

$25 for the 1-CE course and continuing education certificate. There are no additional fees for this course. The fee offers you lifetime access to the self-guided home study course. Because you maintain lifetime access tot he learning materials, no refunds are offered for this course.

Presenter

Dr. Amy Marschall is a licensed clinical psychologist in South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Florida, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and New York, PsyPact provider, and registered psychologist in New Zealand. She is the author of A Clinician's Guide to Supporting Autistic Clients and Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy: What Every Mental Health Provider Needs to Know. She is late-diagnosed autistic.

Learning Objectives

  1. Participants will appraise current research related to mental health care for autistic adults, including distinctions between historically dominant models of care and neurodiversity-affirming approaches.
  2. Participants will assess the alignment of treatment plans and therapeutic approaches with neurodiversity-affirming principles when working with autistic clients.
  3. Participants will evaluate evidence-based neurodiversity-affirming interventions that may be incorporated into psychotherapy with autistic clients, including at least five interventions discussed during the course.

Target Audience

This is an intermediate-level course for psychologists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and any other mental health professional who provides therapy services to autistic clients. Participants should have an introductory understanding of neurodiversity-affirming care and of autism.

Statement Regarding Conflict of Interest

Dr. Marschall was compensated by the Riga Neurodiversity Conference to create a version of this course. Dr. Marschall and Resiliency Mental Health have no financial or non-financial conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Continuing Education Course: Therapeutic Considerations for Autistic Clients

$25

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