Our training covers Core Capabilities 1 and 2 and includes up-to-date information that is important to understand about autistic people.
This includes an understanding of double empathy, monotropism, autistic inertia, and the difficulties that autistic people have with their executive functioning skills because of the monotropic mind and autistic inertia.
Our training is bespoke and differentiated to meet the needs of health care, mental health, and social care staff.
By far, the most beneficial element of the training for our participants is the real-life experiences that are included in the training. We use first hand accounts from autistic people to bring the training to life and provide lived experience.
This is a draft programme of the mental health training that we are currently delivering virtually across the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne, and Wear Trust.
- Introduction
- Health inequalities in autism
- Diagnosis
- Communication – double empathy
- Sensory sensitivities
- Common difficulties in autism
- Trust
- Mental health
- Talking therapies
- Solution-focused support
- Q&A session