Adult Autism Advanced 12th and 13th May 2025 (online): AMHS, Forensicare, CYMHS/CAMHS/ICYMHS, Orygen, Victorian headspace, ACHHO/ACHHS and Take Two clinicians, Children's Health and Wellbeing Locals (Hubs)
This is a two-day workshop delivered online via Zoom
Please read the flyer, workshop description and cancellation policy to the left (select the image to view) before registration.
This is the subsidised cost registration page for Victorian CYMHS/CAMHS/ICYMHS: including Orygen, Children’s Health and Wellbeing Locals, Victorian headspace, ACCHO/ACCHS, Take Two clinicians, and clinicians employed at Victorian publicly funded AMHS (including Forensicare). Please note you cannot reserve a place in this workshop by purchasing a ticket you are not eligible for. If you purchase a subsidised place and are not eligible, your refund may be subject to an administration fee.
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.
Click here to download the course flyer
Mindful's workshops are funded by the Victorian Health Department. Some workshop places are made available for private practice and interstate clinicians, but many of our courses are specifically designed to skill-up particular cohorts of the Victorian mental health workforce. Our training is only available to overseas based clinicians on a case-by-case basis. If you practice outside of Australia please email our team at mindful-asd@unimelb.edu.au to confirm your eligibility.
Cancellation and No Show Policy:
Registered participants who are unable to attend and notify us of this in writing prior to fourteen days before the workshop may either:
(1) cancel their registration and receive a refund of their payment minus administration fee of 20% or $40, whichever is greater;
(2) transfer their registration once to another eligible participant within the same workplace (no fee);
(3) in some circumstances may be able to transfer their registration once to an equivalent-cost ASD workshop in the same calendar year, if space is available.
Cancellations with less than 14 days' notice are not refundable. If there is someone else in your workplace that you wish to transfer your registration to, this may be permitted. In exceptional circumstances, please contact us.