Somerset, Hunterdon, & Warren Psychological Association (SHWPA)
David Krauss, Ph.D., NJ Licensed Psychologist
Presents:
Adolescents and Adults ‘On the Spectrum’ and Their Families: Integrative Approaches for General Practitioners
Friday September 27, 2024 at the Courtyard by Marriott Lebanon – 300 Corporate Drive Lebanon, NJ 08833. Registration 9:00 AM- 9:30 AM – Dr. Krauss’s presentation 9:30-2:30, Lunch is included. 4 Continuing Education Credits
Note: The last day to register for this program is Monday, 9/23
Program Narrative:
This workshop is designed to help practitioners who have not specialized in neurodevelopmental disorders learn effective ways to think about and work with adolescents and adults diagnosed with Autism (Level 1 – Requiring Support) and Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder (SCD) and their families.Analogies and examples grounded in developmental, social, cognitive, and evolutionary psychology theory and research; as well blog posts and news stories; that provide succinct and accessible ways for clinicians, patients, and families to think about neurodevelopmentally atypical people and their families will be discussed. These will include some of the ways the impact of Autism & SCD may vary with ethnic-racial and socio-economic identity and context.
Some cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused, family therapy, and community psychology techniques applicable to work with neurodevelopmentally atypical people will be reviewed. These will include facilitating attribution shifts; ‘unmasking’ or ‘coming out’ as neurodevelopmentally atypical; embracing intense special interests; focusing on ‘exceptions’ to problems and mastery experiences; using in-session ‘enactments’ between family members; and self-help/mutual support group participation.
Strengths-and-resilience based Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) principles and techniques will be emphasized. This will include how SFT techniques can be integrated into other therapy orientations and ways SFT techniques can help clinicians work more collaboratively and respectfully with individuals and families whose ethnic-racial backgrounds or socio-economic contexts differ from their own.
David Krauss, Ph.D. has been working for over 35 years with neuro-developmentally atypical children, adolescents, and adults along with their parents and families. He trained at Yale’s Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy, the Yale Child Study Center, in the New Haven Public Schools, and at The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). Dr. Krauss worked in UMDNJ’s adolescent inpatient unit and School Based Youth Services program at New Brunswick High School before moving to independent practice. He was a clinical field supervisor at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) for many years. He is a past-president and long-time board member of the Mercer County Psychological Association.
Dr. Krauss has an independent practice in Hopewell, NJ and writes the “Atypical Children- Extraordinary Parenting” blog at Psychology Today.
Learning Objectives: This workshop is designed to help participants:
1. Describe some of the differences between Autism (Level 1 – Requiring Support) and Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder (SCD) and times when one of these ‘lenses’ might be a better ‘fit’ than another.
2. Summarize several succinct and accessible research-based analogies and examples, as well as blog posts and news stories, that can aid understanding of and communication about the experience and impact of Autism and SCD.
3. Describe some of the ways the experience and impact of Autism & SCD may vary with ethnic-racial and socio-economic identity and context.
4. Integrate some cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused, family therapy and community psychology techniques into their work with neurodevelopmentally atypical people.
5. Understand how ‘unmasking’ and embracing rather than pathologizing ‘intense special interests’ can help people diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders better engage in social and work environments.
6. Understand how solution focused principles and techniques can help them work more collaboratively and respectfully with neurodevelopmentally atypical people (and their families), as well as clients more generally, who have racial-ethnic backgrounds or socio-economic contexts that differ from their own.
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Dr. Krauss does not have any commercial support and/or conflict of interest.
This program’s level of learning is Intermediate, and the target audience is psychologists and other mental health professionals.
ADA Accommodations available upon written request by emailing Virginia Walters, Psy.D. at virginiawaltersm4@gmail.com, no later than September 20, 2024.
SHWPA Program Fee: SHWPA Member $60, Non – SHWPA Member $70, Students $15. Online registration & payment can be made at shwpa.org, OR by mailing a check made out to SHWPA and mailed to Tracy Menzie P.O. Box 644 Lebanon, NJ 08833. Please note – registration for this program will close on September 23, 2024.
NJPA CE Credits/ Administrative Fee for 4 CE Credits (A separate fee paid to NJPA), is paid online after the completion of the program. NJPA administrative fees: Sustaining Member –Free, NJPA Member-$15, Non-NJPA Member- $25. The NJPA LINK will be provided during the program.
Contact SHWPA Program Chair - Virginia Walters, Psy.D. at 908-439-3456 X8 or at virginiawaltersm4@gmail.com
This workshop is co-sponsored by NJPA and SHWPA. NJPA is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. NJPA maintains responsibility for the program and its content.