Introducing a new series of educational opportunities designed for intermediate to advanced clinicians. Each two-hour, live, interactive webinar will include one hour of instruction and one hour of “conversation” between the presenter and participants.
Educational Objectives
This webinar will teach the participant to
- Describe autistic characteristics that may increase the risk of body dysmorphia
- Identify ways in which difficulty adapting to change can create a struggle to feel connected with the physical form.
- Identify ways in which sexual experiences may be either overwhelming or grounding to the autistic individual.
Syllabus
- Autism and Body Image
- Identity and the Body
- Atypical Focus on the Body: Body Dysmorphia, Somatoform, Health Anxiety
- Atypical Distance from the Body
- Coping with Changes in Physical Form
- Puberty
- Pregnancy
- Weight/Shape: Eating Disorders
- Aging
- Gender and Sexuality
- Gender Identification
- Sexuality: sexual or asexual
- Clinical Examples
- Body Dysmorphia
- Health Anxiety
- Sexuality: asexual versus sexuality as grounding
