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Autism, Attachment and Trauma 12th June 2025 (online): Other Professionals

This is a two-day workshop delivered online via Zoom
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$190.00

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ASD2025S1ATT-JUN-F

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Contact: mindful-asd@unimelb.edu.au

Phone Number: 03 8344 3425

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To register for this training, please click 'Enrol', then click the cart icon on the top left of the screen for payment (if applicable).

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Upon successful enrolment, you will receive two automated emails (an order confirmation and invoice/payment), in addition to a registration email from the Mindful team within 72 hours. If you do not receive an email from Mindful within 5 business days, please contact us.

For information about upcoming training and frequently asked questions, please visit our website: https://mindful.org.au/asd-training

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

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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.