Motivational Interviewing for High-Functioning Autism in Adulthood: Empower Clients to Navigate Complex Emotions, Enhance Intrinsic Motivation, and Embrace Positive Change

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Sean Inderbitzen, DSW, LCSW Related seminars and products

DBA Inderbitzen Consulting Services LLC

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Sean Inderbitzen, DSW, LCSW, an autistic psychotherapist and researcher through Mayo Clinic Health System. He regularly trains healthcare professionals to be more confident when working with people on the spectrum. He is coauthor, along with Stephen Porges, of Autism in Polyvagal Terms: New Possibilities and Interventions, part of W.W. Norton’s Interpersonal Neurobiology Series.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sean Inderbitzen has employment relationships with Northlakes Community Clinic and Inderbitzen Consulting Services, LLC. He receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sean Inderbitzen has a professional relationship with Dr. Stephen Porges, Barry Prizant, and Pat Ogden.

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Objectives

1. Justify the importance of using person-centered strategies with ASD patients 
2. Utilize MI to integrate understanding of pragmatic language skills, motivation and depressive symptoms 
3. Employ MI strategies such as flipping the righting reflex, menu of options type questions and OARS to treat anxiety and depression in adults with HFA 

Outline

Motivational Interviewing (MI) and ASD: What the Research Says 

• Matching developmental freedom and personal autonomy: Activity 
• Recommendations for balancing safety and autonomy 
• Person-centered strategies and their impact on patients with ASD 
• Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT) and MI  

 
MI Techniques for Improving Pragmatic Language 

• Exercise on social pragmatics and depression (Thomas Gordon’s process) 
• Case study: Social pragmatics and meaning making 
• Social pragmatics and its affect on self-esteem and motivation 
• Help clients navigate ambiguity 
• Decreasing “black” and “white” thinking patterns 
• Increasing clients ability to identify reasons for change and build motivation 
• Responding to change talk in HFA 
• Hacks for social pragmatics 

MI Strategies for Treating Anxiety and Depression 

• Recognize “black” and “white” thinking patterns 
• Open-ended questions, Affirmations, Reflections and Summaries (OARS) 
• Cultivate change talk for motivation: Case example 
• OARS real play activity 
• Flipping the righting reflex demonstration 
• Evoking confidence for change in HFA: Exercise 
• Menu of Options – using closed-ended questions 
• MI risk and limitations in ASD population 

Target Audience

• Addiction Professionals 
• Case Managers 
• Dieticians 
• Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors 
• Marriage & Family Therapists 
• Nurses 
• Nursing Home/Assisted Living Administrators 
• Occupational Therapists 
• Occupational Therapy Assistants 
• Physical Therapists 
• Psychologists 
• School Administrators 
• Social Workers 
• Speech-Language Pathologists 
• Teachers/School-Based Personnel