Are you ready to help a gifted and/or autistic person with tempering perfectionism? Can these ideas help anyone identify problems with perfectionism and address them? Yes, turns out perfectionism is a widespread, well-documented, increasing problem in modern cultures. It’s ruined! I can’t eat it! If it’s not perfect, it’s no good. Part I of this […]
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Counseling Techniques for Autism and ADHD
During 30 years of working with kids as a school psychologist in public schools and as an LPC in private practice at my Autism Clinic and Family Counseling Center, I have digitized many forms, templates, and counseling techniques that I often use because they work. I decided to make them publicly available for parents, teachers, counselors, and psychologists to use. For the most complete collection of Counseling Tools for Kids in Schools, try this book, available in 8.5 x11 paper form on Amazon or as an ebook with printable pdf forms from my website here at intensivecareforyou.com. It is full of counseling techniques appropriate for Autism and ADHD.
You can also find free courses, forms, and brief explanations of counseling techniques for Autism and ADHD on my Behavior and Counseling Resources for Free page.
By the way, if a strategy can work with kids dealing with the complexity of autism spectrum disorder, you can bet it could be dynamite with children who struggle with ADHD, anxiety, and many other issues. One of the reasons I created so many forms and templates was because I needed concrete visually presented strategies for my clients, as well as a way to share these strategies with teachers and parents so they could be coaching the child to remember and use their strategies where it really counts. I think combining some good behavior management with rewards for attempting to make good changes and use adaptive coping strategies is often necessary to get the skills to generalize outside of your counseling office.
Many of these strategies are appropriate for teachers and parents to use as well. Below are some articles providing more thoughts and information about counseling techniques for Autism and ADHD:
ADHD Best Counseling Practices
Coronavirus Kid Care Kit- Parent help guide
Student Loss of Joy and Motivation for School During Covid Guide
Success Story Strategy for Anxious Kids with Autism
CBT Counseling Strategies for Autism
Stop Autistic Child from Perseverating
Gifted Autistic Tempering Perfectionism
Metaphors for Teaching Children about Power in Feelings, Relationships, Teasing, and Bullying
Teaching Children Responsibility and Independence
Metacognition for self-esteem, self-regulation, academic success
How to Get the Most Out of My Counseling Session
Bullying Help Autism, ADHD, Gifted
Best Way to Motivate Autistic ADHD Child
Breathe- One Simple Trick Helps Focus, Energy, Depression, Anxiety, Sleep, and More
Effective Discipline for an Exceptional Child
Teach Emotional Control and the Power of Thought
Solution Focused Counseling Techniques
Video Game Addiction Digital Media Management
Child Anxiety Definitions and Strategies
Social emotional impact of covid on young children up to age 6 and how to help
Social emotional impact of covid on teens and young adults with resources
Courses:
Autism Aspergers Understanding from the Inside Out
Teaching Social Skills Through Play
Diagnosis Autism or Aspergers: Now What?
Counseling Tools for Kids in Schools
YouTube Teaching Social Skills Through Play Course on this site exerpt
Which behavioral therapy works best for autism?
Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
How to get the most out of my counseling
I want to know how to get the most out of my counseling session Be honest. This is private, so don’t exclude things that might be keeping you from doing better or causing you problems. There is no need to worry, we can’t tell anyone unless it’s about harming someone else or yourself, in which […]
Considering Online Therapy
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How to Talk to Kids in Crisis- Developmentally Appropriate Ways of Reassuring Kids by Age Groups
What approaches work best for communicating with kids at different levels of maturity? Would you like to know how to talk to kids in a crisis? Ages 3-7 “We are here, we are going to take care of you and you will be okay.” Make and follow a regular routine schedule daily. Ages 8-11 Nuts […]
Success Story Strategy for Anxious Kids with Autism
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Manage Angry and Aggressive Child
Manage Angry and Aggressive Child This is a common complaint from visitors to my office, the Autism Clinic and Family Counseling Center. See some tips and tricks that I have seen work with kids who have Autism, ADHD, anxiety, OCD, and depression. If you are thinking about a child who has no diagnosis, and you […]
CBT Counseling Strategies for Autism
Curious about ways to adapt CBT counseling strategies for Autism? Let’s explore what CBT is and how to present CBT strategies for Autism so they are understood and utilized to create a better quality of life, more flexible problem-solving, and better emotional control. It’s true that some people on the autism spectrum tend to be […]
IEP Goals for Anxiety
IEP Goals for Anxiety Update: Telemedicine virtual online counseling now available here: https://www.bradmasoncounselor.com/ Coronavirus Kid Care Kit detailing how to reassure kids in crisis by age group, structuring their day, menu of offline at-home activities, and managing technology use. Children with special needs and behavior problems stuck at home without structure can push their parents […]
IEP Counseling Goals
IEP Counseling Goals Menu Aggression _________ will demonstrate being mad the right way ___% of observed trials. _________ will use appropriate strategies to calm themselves with prompts ___% of observed trials. _________ will allow themselves to be mad or frustrated without hurting 90% of observed opportunities. _________ will refrain from physical aggression (i.e. kicking, hitting, […]
How do our stories maintain illness?
Power of Story Ever wonder why people get “stuck?” Is it fear of change? Staying in the comfort zone of what you have gotten used to, even if it’s not really what you want and dream of? How do our stories maintain illness? Listening to the internal critic and pessimism, resigning yourself to helplessness, in […]