Dr. Nowell offers this workshop through PESI LLC. For a registration and more information for Dr. Nowell's seminars, click on link at the end of the seminar description.
Very Best Treatment for ADHD and the Processing Disorders:
Immediate Evidence-Based Strategies That Work!
For the practicing mental health clinician, the ability to rapidly identify processing disorders and make targeted treatment recommendations is one of the therapeutic skills which separates the good from the great. Dr. Nowell is convinced that an accurate understanding of executive functions and dysfunctions is a core competency for the mental health clinician.
By the end of the seminar…
You will gain a wide range of concrete skills, including assessment of processing and organizational deficits from multiple perspectives and managing symptom overlap among related disorders.
You will
- Recognize the "look-alike" disorders.
- Spot core problems in Sensory Processing Disorder and Central Auditory Processing Disorder.
- Take advantage of evidence-based strategies to target weak points in clients' skills sets.
- Manage symptom overlap among ADHD, Asperger's Disorder, and Nonverbal Learning Disability.
- Identify executive and organizational deficits across a wide range of childhood and adult disorders.
- Differentiate and describe the processing disorders.
- Implement specific skills for managing school, work, and relationship challenges for clients with executive dysfunction.
- Apply techniques for involvement of teachers, family, and spouses in your evaluation and treatment.
- Implement a set of strategies that clients will use long after treatment is over.
- Acquire a set of tools you can adapt to children and adults with executive dysfunction or "everyday" time management challenges and mood instability.
Who will benefit from this seminar?
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapits
- Nurses
- Teachers
- School Administrators
- Educational Paraprofessionals
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Case Managers
- Speech and Language Pathologists
- Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Other helping professionals who work with children
