Cara Marker Daily – 2-Day Certificate Training in Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for High-Functioning Autism

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Cara Marker Daily – 2-Day Certificate Training in Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for High-Functioning Autism

Diagnostic Criteria

• ICD-10 versus DSM-5®
• Social (pragmatic) communication disorder
• Comorbid disorders: Conceptual framework

Screening and Assessment Tools to Guide Treatment Planning

• Anxiety/depression and other comorbid disorders
• Social skills
• Career planning
• Sex education

Brain Function: How the Brain with Autism Works

• Latest research in ASD brain development
• Enhanced versus impaired abilities
• Information processing: typical brain versus brain with autism
• Activities: Experience how an individual with ASD processes tasks

INTERVENTIONS, STRATEGIES, MODALITIES AND CASE STUDIES FOR:

Social-Communication

• Visual systems to improve communication
• Teach turn taking and pragmatic language in conversations
• Programs to assist in generalizing social skills
• Video modeling and role play to teach social rules
• Social stories and social autopsies
• Case study: 6-year-old female, hand flapping, rocking, and high pitch squealing sounds

ADHD and Executive Functioning Deficits

• Staying on-task and motivation
• Schedules, timelines, web diagramming
• More preferred tasks
• Creating home base
• Cast study: 11-year-old male, difficulty planning/organizing, needs help with pragmatic language skills

Noncompliance and Oppositional Behaviors

• Applied behavioral analysis techniques
• Token economy systems
• Functional Behavioral Assessments
• Cast study: 10-year-old male, impulsive, engages in stealing behaviors

Sexuality and Challenging Sexual Behaviors

• Body awareness, exploration of self, sexual arousal and puberty
• Steps to dating and sexual relationships
• Education on masturbation and pornography
• Decrease stalking behaviors
• Case study: 14-year-old male, frequent masturbation and stalking behaviors

Coping Cat Training for Anxiety and Specific Phobias

• Recognize and understand emotional and physical reactions to anxiety
• Clarifying thoughts and feelings in anxious situations
• Develop plans for effective coping
• Evaluate performance and giving self-reinforcement
• Case study: 9-year-old male, generalized anxiety disorder, and school phobia

Exposure and Response Prevention for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Mapping OCD
• Creating the tool kit
• Family sessions
• Relapse prevention
• Case study: 22-year-old female, excessive hand washing

Psychosocial Interventions for Depression

• Cognitive-behavioral therapies
• Mindfulness-based therapies
• Social and vocational programs
• Family therapy
• Case study: 15-year-old male, hates school and has a plan, intent, and timeline for suicide

Psychopharmacological

• Commonly prescribed medications
• Medication efficacy
• Risks versus benefits
• Case study: 17-year-old male, flat affect, on medication for ADHD and anxiety

Clinical Considerations

• Gender Dysphoria/LGBTQ
• Multicultural
• Suicide
• Limitations of research and potential risks
• Case Study: 19-year-old female, identifies as nonbinary and wears binder

Ethical Challenges in Autism

• Welfare of the individual
• Informed consent
• Use of restraints
• Time-out versus seclusion
• Case study: 8-year-old male, screaming, standing on top of table with scissors in his hand

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Description:

Every individual with High-Functioning Autism (HFA) is extremely different, which can make providing treatment very difficult.

They have unique abilities in visual-spatial processing, rule-following, sensory perception, and detailed memory, but also deficits in executive functioning, integrative processing, and other complex cognitive skills. Thus, they are more prone to the co-occurring challenges of anxiety, depression, aggression, poor self-regulation, inattention, and social skill deficits.

Watch autism expert and author, Cara Daily, PhD, BCBA, for this 2-day certificate training and learn how to integrate essential cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) tools, evidence-based behavioral interventions and successful psychosocial techniques to effectively teach your clients with HFA (0-25 years) to regulate their emotions, develop impulse control, and improve their behaviors.

You will receive in-depth specialized training in using:

• Assessment tools to guide treatment programming
• Motivational interviewing, mindfulness, exposure and response prevention, social stories, social skills programs and social autopsies
• Comprehensive manualized treatment program for reducing anxiety
• CBT to address comorbid disorders, poor social skills, adaptive behavior deficits, special interests, poor attention and motivation, and any school or work-based problems

Through engaging case studies, and hands-on demonstrations and activities, you will leave this training with the knowledge and skills required to confidently assess and treat your clients with autism!