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 the role of feedback beyond "getting it right."
- Define the Guiding Style of Motivational Interviewing
- Demonstrate understanding of the importance of pattern in autism diagnosis
Syllabus
- Therapeutic Discussions
- Clinician's Role: Motivational Interviewing
- Feedback as a Systems Intervention
- "Feedback That Sticks"
- Autism: An Unexpected Diagnosis
- Introducing the Diagnosis
- Navigating Resistance
- When Autism is not the Diagnosis
- Subthreshold Characteristics
- Extreme Endorsement Profiles
- Profiles Inconsistent with Autism
- No Autism Diagnosis: Dysregulated Response to Feedback
- Clinical Examples
- Initial Resistance to Diagnosis
- Chronic Resistance to Diagnosis
- Intense Resistance to No Diagnosis
