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Digital Seminar

Unmasking Adult Autistic Burnout: A Clinician’s Guide to Supporting Clients


Speaker:
Amy Marschall, PsyD
Duration:
Approx. 6 Hours
Copyright:
Dec 16, 2024
Product Code:
POS059953
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

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Description

Message from the presenter Amy Marschall, PsyD

Traditional non-affirming autism therapies often force clients to mask their autistic traits leading to PTSD, highlighting a flawed approach that aims to “fix” rather than support.

When autistic individuals won’t or cannot mask they face unimaginable discrimination and abuse profoundly impacting their physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

There’s a much better way to support autistic clients!

Watch me, Amy Marschall, PsyD, an autistic clinical psychologist and author, as we delve into the essential topic of exhaustion and burnout experienced by adult autistic individuals. In this training, we’ll challenge existing standards of care and explore modifications to traditional treatment plans. I’ll compassionately guide you through:

  • What autistic burnout looks like in adults
  • Current research to address burnout, co-morbidities, and suicidal ideation
  • Modifications for traditional treatment plans
  • How to help clients safely unmask with neurodiversity-affirming interventions

Be the change your autistic clients deserve—watch this training and revolutionize your practice to better support autistic adults. Purchase today!

Dr. Amy Marschall

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Speaker

Amy Marschall, PsyD's Profile

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Sioux Falls Psychological Services


Amy Marschall, PsyD, is an autistic clinical psychologist in seven US states and New Zealand. She is the author of A Clinician’s Guide to Supporting Autistic Clients, neurodivergence expert, and speaker. Her clinical specializations include evaluating children, teens, and adults for autism, supporting autistic clients, and trauma therapy.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Amy Marschall is the founder of Resiliency Mental Health and has employment relationships with RMH Therapy, A Change for Better, Grayce, ADHD Online, Spring Health, and DotDash Meridith. She is a consultant with VeryWell Mind and receives royalties as a published author. Amy Marschall receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Amy Marschall has no relevant non-financial relationships.

 


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Objectives

  1. Analyze current standards of care for autism and the limitations associated with these approaches.
  2. Utilize current research around autistic burnout to conceptualize cases.
  3. Choose appropriate treatment recommendations to alleviate symptoms of autistic burnout in adults.
  4. Modify existing interventions to reflect a neurodiversity-affirming approach to mental health care with autistic adults.
  5. Identify 10 evidence-based and neurodiversity-affirming interventions to use with autistic adults experiencing burnout.
  6. Formulate neurodiversity-affirming treatment plans with autistic adults experiencing burnout.

Outline

Video Testimonials: Trauma and Harm Caused by the Deficit Model “Treatments”

  • Current standards of care, incl. associated limitations, trauma, harm
  • The prevalence of trauma symptoms over non-autistics
  • Autistics who undergo traditional “treatment” vs. those who do not
  • The goals of traditional “treatments”

Neurodiversity-Affirming Care: A Shift Away from “Fixing” to Supporting

  • What neurodiversity-affirming is/is not
  • Rethinking autism and mental health care
  • Affirming and trauma-informed
  • Affirming and intersectional
  • Centering autistic voices

Video Testimonials: What Autistic Burnout Looks Like in Adults

  • Differentiate from other diagnoses
  • Screeners, symptoms, warning signs
  • Burnout and suicide
  • Risk assessments: passive vs active
  • Talk to clients about suicide

Neurodiversity-Affirming Interventions to:

Prevent Adult Autistic Burnout

  • What’s within the therapist’s and client’s control
  • Proactively identify and address unmet needs
  • Fight barriers to getting needs met
  • Find manageable levels of responsibility
  • Help clients unmask safely
  • Recognize burnout levels and provide support before escalation

Treat Adult Autistic Burnout

  • New and creative sensory safe spaces
  • Find alternative communication
  • Fidgeting and stimming
  • Meet body survival needs
  • Teach positive self-talk and self-monitoring skills
  • Prevent future burnout episodes
  • Accommodations requests

Case Studies: Neurodiversity-Affirming Interventions

Nonbinary Autistic Adult, Age 25

  • Graduate student who hit burnout while in school
  • Determine what’s manageable and what changes are needed for ongoing well-being
  • When a client can no longer use previously effective skills

Autistic Female, Age 19

  • Childhood sexual and emotional abuse
  • History of behavioral issues and participation in a punitive behavioral program
  • Emergence of suicidal ideation upon entering adulthood
  • Balancing burnout symptoms, immediate safety concerns, and trauma history

Autistic Male, Age 44

  • Recent diagnosis, realization of how much he was masking
  • Unpack history and process how much he was compensating
  • Sudden decline in “functioning”

Limitations of Research and Risks of Interventions

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Speech-Language Pathologists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Behavioral Intervention Specialists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Probation Officers
  • Clergy
  • Other helping professionals who work with autistic adults

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