Autism, Attachment and Trauma: 12th June 2025
12 June 2025, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm
Presented by Dr Jennifer Harrison
This is a 5.5 hour workshop delivered online via Zoom live webinar.
$190 (inc. GST): General
$95 (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 and other professionals working with autistic children and young people, e.g. psychologists, social workers, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, mental health nurses, paediatricians, psychiatrists and registrars.
Who provides the training?
Dr Jennifer Harrison is consultant psychiatrist for the Alfred Child and Youth Mental Health Service’s Neurodevelopmental Stream. Her role includes work with the Developmental Assessment and Management Program and the Neuropsychiatry Clinic. Jennifer holds honorary appointments at the University of Melbourne and Monash University as well as at the Dax Centre, University of Melbourne, where she founded and manages The Dax Poetry Collection.
What does the training include?
This half day live webinar looks at attachment theory, and current knowledge about attachment in autistic children and youth. Assessment and treatment using attachment models will be addressed as well as an overview of the Parent Development Interview, a research tool that assesses parental reflective function. Key learning objectives are:
- What is attachment?
- Why is it important?
- What is the difference between an attachment disorder and insecure attachment?
- What do we know about autism, attachment, and associated trauma?
- Ways of supporting parent-child attachment when a child is autistic
What do participants say about the training?
“Content was great, thoughtful, relevant, trauma informed, clearly linked to relevant research but also included lots of relevant case examples so we can link it to practice.” (July 2024)
“It helped me think about over half my caseload in a multitude of ways, all of which are now on my supervision agenda for next week! I also very much appreciated Jenny's discussions on assessment/interviewing approaches, ways of formulating, and evidence-based dyadic interventions.” (July 2024)
“Great overview and relevance to my work. Answered many questions I had.” (June 2023)
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