Adults with High-Functioning Autism and Comorbid Mental Disorders
Motivational Interviewing Tools and Techniques to Enhance the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression
- Speaker:
- Sean Inderbitzen, DSW, LCSW
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 07 Minutes
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN, ES, DE, IT, and FR, handouts in EN, ES, DE, IT, and FR
- Copyright:
-
21 Jun, 2021
- Product Code:
- POS057945
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Rates of Autism disorder diagnoses have exploded in the last 2 decades. Along with others on the spectrum, high-functioning individuals are at a vastly elevated risk for experiencing anxiety, depression and other mental health problems.
But when these clients come to your office, the lack of intrinsic motivation, difficulty identifying emotions, and resistance to change found in so many individuals on the spectrum can leave you feeling frustrated, ineffective and perpetually stuck at square one in therapy.
How can you ensure you’re prepared to work with this growing population and overcome the treatment obstacles that can impede the therapy they desperately
need!
Sean Inderbitzen, is an advanced practice social worker and MINT trainer who is also on the autism spectrum. Watch him for a critical one-day training on how you can use Motivational Interviewing to help clients with HFA more fully engage in treatment and find the drive they need to improve their lives!
Full of insights on how MI can be used most effectively from the perspective of both a clinician and a person with autism, Sean will show you:
- How to identify symptoms of anxiety and depression that can differ in adults with ASD
- Ways to overcome black and white thinking patterns that can stall therapy
- Strategies to address ruminations and build emotional vocabulary
- Techniques that help clients on the spectrum identify reasons for change and build motivation for treatment
- Exercises to keep the momentum of the conversation toward change in depression and anxiety treatment
Whether you already work with HFA clients, or want to ensure you’re prepared to, this program will give you the tools you need to achieve more positive outcomes for HFA clients!
Purchase today!
Credit
This self-study program consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary by country and local regulatory bodies. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your local regulatory organization to determine specific eligibility and requirements.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Adults with High-Functioning Autism and Comorbid Mental Disorders (2.2 MB) | 74 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Adults with High-Functioning Autism and Comorbid Mental Disorders - French (2.2 MB) | 74 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Adults with High-Functioning Autism and Comorbid Mental Disorders - Italian (2.2 MB) | 74 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Adults with High-Functioning Autism and Comorbid Mental Disorders - German (2.2 MB) | 74 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Adults with High-Functioning Autism and Comorbid Mental Disorders - Spanish (2.2 MB) | 74 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Sean Inderbitzen, DSW, LCSW Related seminars and products
DBA Inderbitzen Consulting Services LLC
Sean Inderbitzen, DSW, LCSW, an autistic psychotherapist and researcher through Mayo Clinic Health System. He regularly trains healthcare professionals to be more confident when working with people on the spectrum. He is coauthor, along with Stephen Porges, of Autism in Polyvagal Terms: New Possibilities and Interventions, part of W.W. Norton’s Interpersonal Neurobiology Series.
Financial: Sean Inderbitzen has employment relationships with Northlakes Community Clinic and Inderbitzen Consulting Services, LLC. He receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sean Inderbitzen has a professional relationship with Dr. Stephen Porges, Barry Prizant, and Pat Ogden.
Additional Info
Program Information
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)Access never expires for this product. For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.
Objectives
- Investigate research on the impact of using person-centered strategies with ASD patients.
- Analyze how symptoms of anxiety and depression can present in adults with ASD.
- Apply strategies to help clients with difficulties recognizing emotions develop a more complete spectrum of emotions.
- Investigate the relationship between pragmatic language skills, motivation and depressive symptoms.
- Employ MI exercises to help clients recognize polarized thoughts and increase doubt in black and white thinking patterns that can impede treatment.
- Prepare treatment plans that include MI strategies to help clients identify reasons for change and build motivation for treatment.
Outline
Resistance to Change in Adults with High-Functioning Autism- How is High Functioning Autism defined?
- Executive functioning deficits and ways to measure
- Matching developmental freedom and personal autonomy
- Research on person-centered strategies with ASD patients
- Feedback informed treatment and the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
Person-Centered Strategies and Skills to Stimulate Change
- Improve rapport by recognizing autonomy
- Review of OARS
- Evoke confidence in clients to try social experiments
- How to decrease sustain talk in clients who don’t think they can change
- Strategies to cultivate change talk for motivation
MI Solutions to Overcome One of the Biggest Treatment Roadblocks
- HFA clients and difficultly recognizing emotion in themselves and others
- Integrate somatic experience as a core organizer for emotional experience
- Tools to develop a spectrum experience of emotions
- How to address binary-based ruminations through building vocabulary
- Exercises to help clients recognize polarized thoughts
- CBT visualization adaptations to connect with concrete thinking patterns
- Use discord to increase doubt in black and white thinking patterns
Improve Treatment Response with MI Strategies
- How symptoms in adults with ASD present
- Features in adults with ASD that affect how they think
- The relationship between pragmatic language skills, motivation and depressive symptoms
- MI strategies to help clients identify reasons for change and build motivation for treatment
- MI interventions for responding to change talk for depressive behaviors
Techniques for Enhanced Engagement in Adult Clients with HFA
- Adult presentations of anxiety and HFA
- Building rapport with anxious HFA clients
- Sustain talk and ruminations in HFA clients – examples
- MI interventions that help clients work with and overcome sustain talk
- Out of the woods exercise to keep the momentum of the conversation toward change
- MI research and treatment risks and limitations
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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