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  SBCPA Presents:   Autism and Neurodiversity in Therapy: Building Understanding and Practical Tools for Clinicians

  Presenter: Anna Krasno, Ph.D.

Dr. Krasno is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in autism assessment and neurodiversity-affirming care. She earned her doctorate in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology from UC Santa Barbara and completed her pre-doctoral internship at Children’s Health Council and Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. Her postdoctoral training was at CALM in Santa Barbara. Prior to graduate school, she was a Donald J. Cohen Fellow at Yale’s Child Study Center, researching early autism diagnosis. She currently serves as the Clinical Director of the Koegel Autism Center at UCSB and is the founder of Autism Assessment Santa Barbara. She has assessed hundreds of individuals ages 14 months to 65 years, with a focus on those missed or misdiagnosed—especially AFAB, BIPOC, trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse individuals.

• Course Outline
  
  1.    Understanding neurodivergence and the neurodiversity paradigm (20 minutes)
  
  2.    Describing autism diagnostic criteria and reframing the spectrum using difference based language (25 minutes)
  
  3.    Neurodiverse affirming and strength-based care considerations in the therapeutic setting (30 minutes)
  
  4.    Q & A (15 minutes)

  
  Topic:  

  Autistic individuals are present across all environments, with a current prevalence of 1 in 31 people. A comprehensive understanding of autism, and the wide range of ways it may present, is essential for clinical practitioners in all settings. Additionally, with approximately 1 in 5 individuals identifying as neurodivergent, it is highly likely that you are already working with autistic and neurodivergent clients in your practice. This workshop provides up-to-date, clinically relevant insights into autism as a potentially hidden disability, the broader concept of neurodivergence, and the principles of the neurodiversity paradigm. It will explore how clinicians can adapt their language and approaches to better support autistic individuals, and how to reframe clinical work through the lens of neurodiversity-affirming care.

   Learning Objectives:

  1. Name two main differences between the medical model and the neurodiversity paradigm.
  2.     Describe the diagnostic criteria for autism using difference-based language instead of deficit-based language.
  3.  Identify three ways they can shift clinical practice to provide strength-based and neurodiverse-affirming care for autistic individuals.

  
  Continuing Education:

  CPA is co-sponsoring with Santa Barbara County Psychological Association (SBCPA). The California Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPA maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

  Important Notice:

  Those who attend the workshop and complete the CPA evaluation form will receive (1.5) continuing education credits. Please note that APA CE rules require that we give credit only to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits.

   

  Please Note: This salon will be held via Zoom.

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You are invited!

SBCPA Presents: Parent Counseling as an Effective, Evidence-Based Treatment for ADHD and Co-Occurring Disorders

Presenter: Richard Formica, Ph.D.

Dr. Formica has been in private practice for the past 40+ years. He has offered both intensive psychotherapy and parent counseling to adults. He is the co-founder of the Fairfield/Formica Parenting Program, a workshop comprising 40 hours of experiential training and coaching. In addition, Dr. Formica co-founded the Center for ADHD Children and Parents. He has authored a 250-page Parent Workshop Manual, entitled “Skills for Growing as a Parent.” In 2023, Dr. Formica published a paperback book, “Parenting With Wisdom and Skill: a Practical Guidebook,” demonstrating how to apply parenting principles to the everyday challenges that parents commonly face. Dr. Formica has been a specialist in parent counseling for 40+ years. He is the co-founder of the Fairfield/Formica Parenting Program and the co-founder of the Center for ADHD Children and Parents. He has recently authored a paperback book, “Parenting With Wisdom and Skill.”

Course Outline

Timeline:         

12:00 - 12:05 pm                Introduction of Speaker and Opening Remarks

12:05 - 2:45 pm                Presentation will be broken down into the following sections:

• Development of Core Parenting Principles (15 minutes)
• Review of clinical findings and research related to ADHD and parent counseling (15 minutes)
• Review of clinical findings and research related to co-occurring clinical disorders and parent counseling (15 minutes)
• ADHD: What is it, what it is not, and what is the core disability beneath the DSM-5 symptom list (45 minutes)
• Practical applications and adaptations of parent counseling methods with parents of children/teens suffering from ADHD and co-occurring disorders (70 minutes)

2:45 - 3:00 pm                Q & A and evaluations

Topic: 

ADHD is one of the most common diagnoses of childhood and adolescence. Raising a child with ADHD is a daunting challenge. Parent Counseling, coupled with personal psychotherapy, is essential for parents of ADHD children and teens as many such parents are profoundly stressed and confused. In this workshop, Dr. Formica will outline the core parenting principles he has developed and taught to parents for decades. He will discuss the features of ADHD itself, what it is and what it is not, and what makes life so difficult for both the ADHD child and their parents. Dr. Formica will also present data on the effectiveness of parent counseling for parents of ADHD children. Finally, Dr. Formica will outline methods and procedures for parent counseling, with special emphasis on the adaptations which clinicians, parent counselors and psychotherapists should make when working with parents of ADHD children.

Learning Objectives:

1.     List three core principles which comprise the parenting roadmap and identify the five essential parenting skills.

2.     Identify three examples of research which has validated the use of parent counseling as an effective treatment modality for parents of children with ADHD.

3. Identify three examples of research studies which have validated the use of parent counseling for related clinical comorbidities.

4.     Identify ten common myths and six common misinformed statements about ADHD medication which parents of ADHD children are exposed to by the popular media.

Continuing Education:

CPA is co-sponsoring with Santa Barbara County Psychological Association (SBCPA). The California Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPA maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

Important Notice:

Those who attend the workshop and complete the CPA evaluation form will receive three (3.0) continuing education credits. Please note that APA CE rules require that we give credit only to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits.

Please note: This event is offered at a rate of $25 for SBCPA and VCPA members. Non-members are welcome to join this event at a rate of $50. Students, or participants who are not applying for CE credit are welcome to join this event at a rate of $25.  

Please Note: This salon will be held via Zoom.