Online Learning

High-Functioning Autism: Proven & Practical Interventions for Challenging Behaviors in Children, Adolescents & Young Adults

Category:: Children and Adolescent Behavioral
Faculty:: Heather Dukes-Murray, PhD
Duration:: 6 Hours 08 Minutes
Format:: Audio and Video
Original Program Date :: Jul 19, 2016
SKU:: POS062530
Media Type:: Online Learning

Price
R3,219.00 - Price

Description

Improve underlying core social skill deficits
Reduce “blow ups” and “melt downs”
Promote positive changes in difficult behaviors in home and school settings
Use iPad® apps for social success, behavioral changes and speech and language
DSM-5® Updates

This intensive, full day seminar provides proven intervention strategies, essential treatment tools, and behavioral techniques to help you analyze behaviors and actions, identify consequences for behaviors, and teach new skills to children, adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism (HFA). Walk away with practical intervention techniques for social success, behavior changes and overcoming challenging co-occurring behaviors that deliver success through adulthood. The challenging co-occurring issues to be addressed are:

Social and communication
Sensory
Anxiety/Rigidity/Non-compliance
ADHD/ADD
OCD
Psychotropic medications

Gain valuable insight into common psychotropic medications, including both the helpful effects and potentially problematic side effects, that these individuals are prescribed. We will explore the advantage of pro-social punishment as a new idea to target and help make changes to difficult behaviors. You will receive the tools necessary to gain effective collaboration between clinicians, educators and parents. Through case studies, video clips and class participation you will leave this seminar with the confidence to identify actions that cause impediments in change, utilize more successful consequences for behaviors, and teach new skills to children, adolescents, and young adults with HFA. Don’t just manage these individuals; provide interventions that lead to successful independence into their adult years!

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DSM-5® Changes & Autism

DSM-IV® and DSM-5®criteria comparisons
Social (pragmatic) communication disorder
Impact on service delivery (school/community)
Successfully link the home, school and therapist
IEP/504/Do they qualify for school services?
Co-morbid disorders: Why the difference is important

Social Skills Interventions

Improve social skill deficits
Group and community-based activities that work
“Kid Cop” behaviors and why other kids get angry
How to get peers to recognize them in positive ways
Early intervention programs that deliver long-term success

Communication Interventions

Ways to work out conflicts that are effective in multiple settings
Help peers, siblings and parents relate
Verbal interventions that overload processing

Sensory Interventions

Self-stimulation (appropriate & inappropriate)
Sensory strategies to avoid
Coping/calming techniques that reduce melt downs
Sensory Diet

Anxiety Interventions

Anxiety reducing activities
How anxiety impacts rigidity
Help them “self-regulate”
Successful transitions

ADHD Interventions

ADHD vs. hyper-focus
Commonly prescribed medications and possible benefits and side effects
Specific triggers and what fuels the rage
Reduce aggressive and disruptive behaviors
Mistakes that escalate defiant behaviors
Overcome refusals to comply with even simple requests

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Interventions

What to do when they become stuck on high interest areas
Specific medication interventions
Impact on socialization and behaviors

Interventions for Specific Difficult Behaviors

Reduce Internet and electronic addictions
Changes in technology, school systems and mental health delivery

Psychopharmacological Interventions

Differentiate among common medications
Medications that mimic difficult behaviors
Side effects and off label use
Impact of eating, sleeping and hormones on medication effectiveness

Case Studies, Demonstrations & Activities

Case studies that demonstrate specific interventions for aggressive and non-complaint behaviors
“Reminder video” technique: A way to facilitate behavioral rehearsal
iPad® apps for social success, behavioral changes and speech and language
Staff training techniques to experience what an individual on the spectrum might

OBJECTIVES

Explain how the DSM-5® updates impact service delivery.
Utilize several social skill interventions to improve long-term success for children/adolescents with HFA.
Employ specific coping and calming techniques for children/adolescents with HFA.
Identify medication side effects that can mimic behavioral issues and may even cause behavioral issues.
Design effective strategies for successful transitions for children/adolescents with HFA.
Select specific behavioral interventions that target the most difficult behaviors in children/adolescents with HFA.

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General Credits

This course is available for 6.0 total CPDs.

The HPCSA has declared that any on-line courses CPD/CEU credited by a certified US board, is automatically CPD/CEU credited in South Africa.

As there are different boards for different disciplines, we at Acacia suggest that you use the Counselling CPD/CEU credits. These correspond to South African credits of one CPD/CEU per 60 minutes. If you choose to use your discipline's credits, please do so at your discretion.

Florida Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.

Handouts

Webcast Manual (1.89 MB)	67 Pages	Available after Purchase
ASHA Participant Form - SELF STUDY ONLY - 07/16/16 (1.54 MB)		Available after Purchase
Instructions for ASHA Credit - SELF STUDY ONLY - 07/19/16 (0.03 MB)		Available after Purchase

Faculty

Heather Dukes-Murray, PhD Related seminars and products: 1

Heather Dukes-Murray, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Daily Behavioral Health. She specializes in assessing, diagnosing, and treating autism. Dr. Dukes-Murray conducts social skill groups for children and adolescents diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, social pragmatic communication disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and anxiety disorders. She also has significant experience treating children and adolescents with mood and anxiety disorders, behavior issues, and mental health difficulties associated with trauma exposure. Dr. Dukes-Murray provides effective treatment strategies and interventions utilizing evidence-based practices, clinical expertise, and client and parent input. In addition to her clinical skills, she excels at presenting complex information in a manner accessible to audiences with a variety of backgrounds and expertise levels. Dr. Dukes-Murray earned her Ph.D., in Counseling Psychology from the University of Georgia in 2011.

Speaker Disclosure:

Financial: Heather Dukes-Murray has an employment relationship with Daily Behavioral Health. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Nonfinancial: Heather Dukes-Murray has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.

Additional Info

Program Information

Additional Resources

To order the workbook, The Key to Autism: An Evidence-based Workbook for Assessing and Treating Children & Adolescents, please visit our product store.

To order the book, Building Social Skills for Autism, Sensory Processing Disorders and Learning Disabilities, please visit our product store.

Target Audience

Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals

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