Autism and Neurodiversity in Therapy: Building Understanding and Practical Tools for Clinicians with Dr. Anna Krasno

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  You are invited!

  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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