Webcast: Autism and Anxiety - 14th March 2025
9:30am - 4:00pm AEST (Brisbane time)
Live training
with Michelle and Tony
To the recording
Handouts
Continuing Professional Development
The association between autism and anxiety has long been recognised. We know that most autistic individuals experience daily problems with anxiety and that anxiety increases the expression of autism. In our first section, we cover an update of the latest research. Next, we discuss reasons for high levels of anxiety in autism, including different neurology, hormones, and the polyvagal system. We describe how to support and accommodate an autistic person who is experiencing high levels of anxiety across school, home, community, and work settings. During the last section of the day, we will discuss neuroaffirming therapy for autistic individuals with anxiety disorders, including social anxiety disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, selective (situational) mutism, specific phobia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Our course covers autism and anxiety across the lifespan.
Know the key research findings in autism and anxiety over the past five years.
Understand the different neurology in autism that contributes to high levels of anxiety.
Recognise how anxiety can present differently in autism.
Understand factors that contribute to high levels of anxiety in autism.
Learn how to provide support and accommodations for an anxious autistic individual to decrease their anxiety.
Know how to respond to a meltdown or shutdown.
Know how to provide neuroaffirming therapy for neurodivergent clients who experience problematics levels of anxiety.
9:30am - 4:00pm AEST (Brisbane time)