Core Skills and Key Concepts In Autism - Day Two

This event is is part 2 of 2. 
Time: 10am - 2pm
 

About the speaker: 
John McDermott, Councelling Psychologist 
Studio III 

John has a particular interest in relational and systemic approaches to working with individuals, families and caregivers in autism, developmental disability and care settings.

Day Two:

• The importance of awareness of caregivers,
• their state and introducing the idea of
• relational mindfulness (Hughes) and the low
• arousal model (McDonnell).
• Working with emotions and individual
• experience of emotion; alexithymia,
• interoception and atypical sensory experience.
• Making sense of theory of mind impairments in
• practice.
• Use of mindfulness as a caregiver intervention.