Autism and Family Dynamics – Prof. Tony Attwood

‘Autism and Family Dynamics – Prof. Tony Attwood’ is a 3-hour presentation to understand how autism can affect different members of a family in different ways.

Event type

Webinar

Location

LIVE STREAM

Autism; The origins of the special interest and misuse of the interest – Prof. Tony Attwood

Prof. Tony Attwood will discuss the stages in the development of special interests, their sequence, and the reasons why specific interests occur as part of the overall profile of Autism.

Restrictive Eating Disorders & Autism; Awareness, Advice, Actions

Complex presentations of eating disorders in young people with Autism or other neurodevelopmental conditions can be challenging for professionals. We hope to provide clinicians with up to date knowledge of current research, helpful tips for clinical practice and an overview of specialist services in the northwest.

Event type

Webinar

Location

LIVE STREAM

Autism; Depression in children and teenagers – Prof. Tony Attwood Special (recording)

Delegates only. This session focused on the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help children and young people with autism with depression.

25 October 2023

Autism; Depression in children and teenagers – Prof. Tony Attwood Special

This session will focus on the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help children and young people with autism with depression. It should interest all mental health professionals and particularly parents and those that support children and young people with autism. There will be effective interventions, tips, and advice, that can be used immediately.

Event type

Live Stream

Location

Online

Autism; Managing Feelings of Anxiety, Sadness, Anger – A Prof. Tony Attwood special

BOOKING NOW CLOSED ‘Autism; Managing Feelings of Anxiety, Sadness, Anger – A Prof. Tony Attwood special’ is a 2 hour webinar, including a Q & A session, that will look at the complexities of expressing and managing feelings for children and young people with autism.

Event type

Talk with Q&A

Location

LIVE STREAM

Autism; Making Friends – A Prof. Tony Attwood Special

BOOKING CLOSED – A 2 hour webinar, including a Q & A session, that will look at strategies to improve social understanding and friendship skills for children and young people with autism. It should interest all mental health professionals and particularly parents and those that support children and young people with autism. There will be effective interventions, tips, and advice, that can be used immediately.

Event type

Talk with Q&A

Location

LIVE STREAM

Practitioner Review: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder – the importance of depression

Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Young people with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder, show high rates of mental health problems, of which depression is one of the most common. Given that depression in ASD and ADHD is linked with a range of poor outcomes, knowledge of how clinicians should assess, identify and treat depression in the context of these neurodevelopmental disorders is much needed”. Anita Thapar (pic) et al.

16 August 2022

Language Regression, Communication Development, and Autism

In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Mandy Steiman about her co-authored paper, ‘Predictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autism’, published in the JCPP.

23 May 2022

Autism and Co-existing Conditions in Children

It is estimated that around 70% of people with autism have one mental health condition (such as anxiety, ADHD, depression or OCD) and around 40% of the 70% will have more than one. Some of these mental health conditions begin in childhood and are sometimes referred to as co-occurring or co-existing conditions.

23 March 2022