Working with ADHD and ASD clients

What is the workshop about?

This online workshop will provide an introduction to key issues in the support of ADHD and ASD clients from the perspective of CBT.

CONTEXTS

• What are the key features of ADHD and ASD?
• What are the similarities and differences?
• What are the psychological issues facing neurodiverse clients?
• Neurodiverse Children & Young People and Adults
• Diagnosing ADHD and ASD in C&YP
• Adult diagnosis and support for ADHD and ASD
• Managing support in private practice.

Therapeutic ISSUES and TECHNIQUES

• What do neurodiverse clients come to counselling for?
• Adapting psychotherapy for neurodiverse clients
• Executive Functioning, disruption and distress
• How can CBT benefit neurodiverse clients?
• Summary

Resources

A full set of slides with clickable links to online resources, is sent free to all delegates after the event. This also includes references to key sources and websites.

CPD

A CPD Certificate of Attendance confirming 2 hours CPD is available free on request to all delegates who attend.

Facilitator

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists.