Adults with High-Functioning Autism and Comorbid Mental Disorders

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Sean Inderbitzen, DSW, LCSW Related seminars and products

DBA Inderbitzen Consulting Services LLC

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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.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sean Inderbitzen has employment relationships with Northlakes Community Clinic and Inderbitzen Consulting Services, LLC. He receives royalties as a published author. Sean Inderbitzen receives grants from Mayo Clinic Health Systems. 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.

 

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Objectifs

1. Investigate research on the impact of using person-centered strategies with ASD patients.
2. Analyze how symptoms of anxiety and depression can present in adults with ASD.
3. Apply strategies to help clients with difficulties recognizing emotions develop a more complete spectrum of emotions.
4. Investigate the relationship between pragmatic language skills, motivation and depressive symptoms.
5. Employ MI exercises to help clients recognize polarized thoughts and increase doubt in black and white thinking patterns that can impede treatment.
6. Prepare treatment plans that include MI strategies to help clients identify reasons for change and build motivation for treatment.

Aperçu

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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