Core Skills and Key Concepts In Autism - Day One

This event is part 1 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 One: 

• Difficulties around control.
• Social comprehension and common difficulties
• in this area.
• The drive for sameness; executive functioning
• impairments of autism.
• Working with lack of motivation.
• Autism experience and trauma.

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.