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SUMMARY:SPECIAL SALE! Being Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical World
DESCRIPTION:Last-Minute Deal! $59 Off!\nLaw & Ethics\, Cultural Competence\, or Health Equity CEs!\nBeing Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical World\nPresented by: B Lourenco\, MA\, LMHC (she/her)\nWhen: Wednesday\, March 18\, 2026| 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Pacific Time\nWhere: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Law & Ethics CEs; also meets the Cultural Competency CE requirement for WA & OR | Cost: $199.00 Now Only $140.00\nHave you noticed that more and more of your clients have begun to suspect that they are neurodivergent? It seems hard to believe that there are suddenly so many more people who are identifying as being neurodivergent.  You may have asked yourself\, “What is going on?” \nThe difference is the shift to using the ethical approach of “centering lived experience” in identifying neurodiversity. Using this term and approach as applied to neurodiversity\, this presenter explains the rise in neurodivergent diagnoses\, especially among those who have initially those self-identified. The presenter suggests that we have only recently begun to LISTEN to voices of those have had “lived experiences” after being diagnosed in the current mental health field\, including countless reports of feeling increased emotional distress and of experiences of marginalization due to being labeled– and subsequently stigmatized– as neurodivergent. \nB Lourenco will provide attendees with a “centering lived experience” model of assessing and supporting clients who suspect that they have been living as a neurodivergent person in a neurotypical world.  This presenter will support your learning how to incorporate a “centering lived experience” model in your own mental health practices.  With this new paradigm\, mental health practitioners and educators can shift their focus away from a deficits-based approach to identifying the strengths and adaptive characteristics of those who are neurodivergent\, especially those identified as autistic or ADHD. \nThis workshop will demonstrate how the current model for identifying neurodivergence—particularly those with Autism and ADHD–is considered both outdated and ableist by experts who choose to use the “centering lived experience” approach to assessing clients.  This course will outline the ways that the current model harms neurodivergent people\, in addition to offering workshop attendees a more client-empowering\, more affirming way to identify and interact with this unique population of people. \nUtilizing the Neurodiversity paradigm\, you’ll leave this workshop with a much better\, more strengths-based understanding of Autism and ADHD\, as well as gaining effective tools for interacting with and supporting these clients (of which you have\, even if you or the client doesn’t know it yet)! \nObjectives: \n\nunderstand the umbrella of neurodivergence\, including innate and acquired neurodivergence\nhave a clearer understanding of Autism and ADHD—as viewed through an ethical\, neurodiversity-affirming lens\nidentify limits of the medical model of neurodivergence\nunderstand ways in which the current medical model is unethical and harmful to neurodivergent people–by its focus on perceived deficits through a neurotypical lens\napply a strengths and differences approach in identifying autism and ADHD\nunderstand and consider using the “centered life experience” model of identifying and supporting neurodivergent clients and populations\ngain new skills to better assist Autistic and ADHD clients\npossess a clearer understanding of the ethical need to approach clients with an anti-oppression lens in mental health care agencies and private practices\nfeel empowered to challenge current systems of harm by supporting clients in their preferred methods of processing sensory input and communicating with others in a neurotypical world\n\nAfter attending this workshop\, attendees will be able to: \n\nDiscuss the ethical violations that come from employing Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) as an intervention with neurodivergent clients/students.\nBecome familiar with the metaphor of Applied Behavioral Analysis as being the why the “conversion therapy” of the neurodivergent community and the ethical ramifications of continuing to use it in schools and clinics.\nUnderstand that the practice of ABA is based upon a “foundation of compliance\, coercion\, and behaviorism.”\nIdentify that current “evidence-based practices” may not be effective with the neurodivergent client.\nComprehend the ethical mandate under cultural competence standards to respect and validate the culture and norms of the neurodivergent population.\nRespect the neurodivergent client as a person worthy of respect and individual civil rights legally protected from discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).\nUnderstand the ethical mandate to assess clients with a culturally competent assessment tool and grasp the ethical violation of using current inadequate or inappropriate assessment tools with neurodivergent clients.\nDiscuss the widespread misdiagnoses of neurodivergent clients/patients when practitioners use a neurotypical standard of behaviors and development to diagnose a neurodivergent client.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/being-neurodivergent-in-a-neurotypical-world-march-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cultural Competence,Ethics,Health Equity,Last-Minute Deals,Neurodiversity
ORGANIZER;CN="B Lourenco%2C MA%2C LMHC (she/her)":MAILTO:blourencotherapy@gmail.com
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