Introduction
Date Course Created: July 2026
This compassionate and insightful course is designed to deepen your understanding of clients with co-occurring Autism and ADHD (AuDHD). Moving beyond traditional labels, the training embraces a neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed approach, helping you create a more validating and empowering therapeutic space.
The course delves into the intricate ways autism and ADHD can overlap, amplifying certain challenges while also highlighting unique strengths. It also examines how systemic biases and harmful, pathologizing narratives can impact a client’s well-being, challenging clinicians to move beyond deficit-based models. You will learn to apply neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed principles to your case conceptualizations, resulting in a more holistic and effective treatment plan.
This focus on practical application provides concrete strategies for addressing key areas like executive functioning, sensory needs, and social-emotional regulation. You will explore how to adapt communication and therapy pacing and integrate targeted tools, such as visual supports and somatic interventions. Ultimately, this training equips you with the skills to better support AuDHD clients in building self-compassion, resilience, and a stronger connection to their identity.
This is a 2.75-CE noninteractive, self-paced online video course delivered in home study format via an industry-standard online learning platform.
Agenda
00:00 – 00:30 → Introduction, Understanding ADHD and Autism, Impact of Stigmatization on Diagnosis
00:30 – 01:00 → Contradictions in Neurodivergent Experiences, Executive Functioning, Anxiety and Perfectionism
01:00 – 01:40 → Social and Communication Difficulties, Daily Routines and Functioning, Neuro-Affirming Approaches
01:40 – 02:00 → Misdiagnosis and Underdiagnosis Issues, Identity Development, Creating Trauma-Informed Treatment
02:00 – 02:45 → Creating a Safe Therapeutic Environment, Collaborative Treatment Planning, Incorporating Special Interests
Objectives
This training will provide participants clinical knowledge and tools to:
After completing this training, participants will be able to differentiate between the core features of autism and ADHD, and describe how these traits interact in AuDHD clients.- After completing this training, participants will be able to apply neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed principles to case conceptualization and treatment planning for AuDHD clients.
- After completing this training, participants will be able to identify therapeutic strategies that validate strengths, reduce shame, and improve executive functioning, emotional regulation, and relational connection in AuDHD clients.
Target Audience:
Mental Health Clinicians & Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Counselors, School Personnel, and Healthcare Workers.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructor(s): Amanda Good, LICSW
Material Author(s): Amanda Good, LICSW
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Course Materials & Delivery Method:
Course Materials – The course is composed of a recorded presentation and written materials (e.g. a slide deck and/or other worksheets, manuals, or handouts as provided by the instructor). The slide deck and any additional worksheets or handouts (as provided by the instructor) are made available inside the Lesson module after a course is purchased.- Delivery Method – This course is a recorded asynchronous, self-paced webinar training, and there is no access time limit or due date to complete it once enrolled. The enrolled learner will stream the recorded presentation and view the materials from their internet connected device via an industry-standard online learning platform.
CE Approvals:
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
Online CE Credits has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6795. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Online CE Credits is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Mind Works Professional Education, Inc. DBA Online CE Credits, #1974, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: July 23, 2025 – July 23, 2028. Social workers completing this course receive 2.75 clinical continuing education credits.
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- Posttest Requirements – You must answer 80% or more of the Quiz questions correctly to pass. If you fail to pass the first time, you may attempt the quiz again until you are able to pass with a score of 80% or better. Quizzes are graded instantly and automatically by the learning management system once your attempt is submitted.
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