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Autism: CBT and DBT Interventions to Improve Cognition and Challenging Behaviors
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Length: Full Day
- CBT strategies to teach the differences and interactions of emotions, thoughts and behaviors
- DBT strategies to teach mindfulness, self-regulation, interpersonal skills, being non-judgmental
- Assessment tool pitfalls with measuring anxiety, depression and suicidal intent
Throughout this intensive workshop you’ll learn how to effectively modify Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) evidence-based strategies to support the mental health needs and social and emotional growth of your clients (10-30 years old) with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Using visuals, you’ll learn to assess their understanding of feelings, to teach them to identify their internal thoughts, and to recognize and reframe their distorted thoughts. You’ll be shown how lack of “theory of mind” impacts treatment. You’ll learn to modify the assessment tools for measuring assessing anxiety, depression, obsession and suicidal intent for a person with ASD.
This workshop will help you design inventive ways to:
- Use autism interventions such as power cards, visual schedules, social stories and videos
- Explain basic abstract concepts such as mindfulness, nonjudgmental, distorted thoughts, empathy and reinforce intervention’s effectiveness
- Incorporate family into treatment to help reinforce these modalities and ensure generalization of these techniques into a variety of settings
Illustrations of this will be synthesizes through case studies and group projects. By the end of the workshop, you will walk away with visual and concrete strategies that you can begin implementing in your own practice.
OUTLINE
Mental Health Impact on the ASD Brain
- Current research on brain development
- Sensory Integration Disorder and its impact on depression, anxiety, OCD, ODD, PTSD and self-injurious behavior
- “Theory of Mind” and its impact on treatment
Assessment for Mental Health Diagnosis in ASD
- Tools to measure depression, anxiety, OCD, ODD, PTSD and self-injurious behavior
- Assessment tool pitfalls with measuring anxiety, depression and suicidal intent and how to effectively modify for ASD
- Visual tools to measure levels of symptom intensity
Developing the CBT and DBT Treatment Plan
- Selecting appropriate CBT and/or DBT strategies
- ASD best practices and evidence-based strategies to strengthen treatment
- Generalize treatment strategies at home, school and community
CBT Strategies to Teach Emotions, Behaviors and Thoughts
- Interactive games, art projects and video clips to determine emotions, behaviors and thoughts
- Visual exercises to define distorted and automatic thoughts
- Social stories, power-cards and video-clips to challenge and reframe distorted thoughts
- Use high interest areas to reinforce CBT
DBT Strategies to Teach Mindfulness, Self-Regulation and Interpersonal Skills
- Teach abstract concepts (judgments, wise mind, radical acceptance) through magazine advertisements, television clips and role playing
- The pitfalls and successes of teaching WISE MIND, mindfulness and the meaning of dialectics
- Mindful “what” and “how” skills to teach internal experiences and urges
- Assess for “self-concept” though art projects, sand-trays and images
Distress Tolerance Skills
- Wise Mind ACCEPT skills and unique ways to reinforce “push away”
- Strengthen TIPPS skills
- Breathing using video modeling, high interests and power cards
- Illustrate RADICAL ACCEPTANCE
- Self-soothing crisis kit for home, school and community
Effective Emotional Regulation Skills
- Methods to teach emotional regulation
- Reinforce PLEASE skills through family plan
- Intensify ABC skills by creating social stories and power cards
- Inventive ways to remind clients and their families to use their mindfulness and regulation skills
Interpersonal Skills
- Write social stories and prepare visual “personal care cards”
- Teach DEAR MAN by using role-play, video modeling and social stories
- Strengthen “Theory of Mind” and empathy skills through games, assignments and videos
- Create “empathy journal” as a spin on diary cards
OBJECTIVES
- Differentiate autism, sensory integration issues and co-morbid mental health issue.
- Modify the assessment tools used for anxiety, depression, obsession and suicidal intent to be used with individuals with autism.
- Prepare effect visual modifications for CBT.
- Compare and contrast emotional regulation interventions for concrete thinkers.
- Evaluate your client’s social/emotional understanding and learn how poor understanding relates to poor intervention effectiveness.
- Modify abstract DBT skills into practical, concrete, visual interventions.
- Design scripts and visuals to help support new interpersonal skills.
- Utilize your client’s high interests to reinforce CBT inventions.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 1-800-844-8260.
Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.
Abbe Colodny, MS, LPC
Abbe Colodny, MS, LPC, has over 12 years of experience working with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families. In her private practice, she specializes in working with children with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, depression, anxiety, PDD-NOS, attention issues, childhood behavioral problems and relationship and attachment issues. In Abbe’s clinical work, she utilizes a person-centered approach, relying on cognitive-behavioral, expressive art techniques, basic dialectic behavioral approaches and psychoanalytical theories. She collaborates with her client’s schools, occupational therapists, speech therapists and other providers to ensure continuity of care.
While working on her master’s in Mental Health Counseling from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, she taught in Weston Elementary School, in an autism classroom. She worked at the University of North Carolina’s Division TEACCH program in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she assisted in assessments, consulted with local schools and worked directly with families and individuals with ASD. From there, Ms. Colodny worked with North Carolina’s Infant and Toddler Program’s early intervention, teaching developmental skills to children with developmental delays, counseled families through initial diagnosis of autism and other genetic diagnosis. Ms. Colodny launched an intensive in-home team specializing in developmental delays, autism, and severe mental health issues. Ms. Colodny worked closely with the Wake County public schools and the pre-school services to coordinate services for young children with complex presentations. She has taught workshops on autism, structured teaching, and best practices for clinicians working with individuals with ASD and mental health issues.
Speaker Disclosure:
Financial: Abbe Colodny has an employment relationship with Therapeutic Partners, LLPC. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Abbe Colodny is a member of the American Psychological Association; and Licensed Professional Counselors Association of North Carolina.
