Adult Autism Advanced: 12th-13th May 2025
12 May 2025, 9:00 am to Tuesday 13 May 2025
Presented by Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Mental Health – Autism Consultation and Evaluation Service (MH-ACES)
This is a 2-day workshop delivered online via Zoom live webinar. Prerequisite: Adult Autism Introductory
$470 (inc. GST): General
$260 (inc. GST): Victorian CYMHS/CAMHS/ICYMHS, Orygen clinicians, Take Two, Headspace, ACCHO/ACCHS, AMHS (including Forensicare), Childrens' Health & Wellbeing Locals (Brimbank-Melton/Loddon-Bendigo/Southern-Monash)
Please note our workshops sell out quickly and therefore may not be available. We are sorry if you cannot access the training you would like to at this time.
Who is the training for?
Mental health clinicians working with adults who want to learn more about the diagnostic process for autism. E.g. Psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers, speech pathologists, mental health nurses, peer support workers, etc.
Who provides the training?
This training with be delivered by the Royal Melbourne Hospital Autism Consultation and Evaluation Service team:
- Dr. Emma Radford, Consultant Psychiatrist
- Elle Perry, Clinical Psychologist
- Leonie Wilson, Speech Pathologist
What does the training include?
This 2-day live webinar will focus on providing practical tools for assessing and understanding how autism presents in adults. Topics covered will include:
- Best practice tools and processes for screening and diagnostic assessment of autism in adults
- Common co-occurring mental health and neurodevelopmental differences in autistic adults
- Case example of an adult autism assessment, including formulation
- Neuroaffirming feedback processes and recommendations for post diagnostic support
- Lived and living experience perspectives.
Please note this training does not focus on moderate to severe intellectual disability and associated behavioural interventions. Please contact Mindful for further information with regards to training options in this area.
Pre-reading materials will be emailed 1-2 weeks before the workshop. This information will be assumed knowledge for the training.
Prerequisite training
Adult Autism Introductory
To be eligible for this training participants are required to have completed the Adult Autism Introductory Course (online on-demand training module), or the one-day live webinar Adult Autism Introductory (offered 2019 - 2022). For further information please see our Frequently Asked Questions website page.
What do participants say about the training?
“This is one of the best trainings I’ve attended” (Oct 2024)
“The breadth of material was fantastic and the expertise was incredible. Very very helpful training” (May 2024)
“Great to hear from living experience perspectives and … from practitioners from different disciplines” (May 2024)
"I really appreciated how comprehensive the information was and it has really improved my confidence in working in this space." (Aug 2023)
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