About this event
Parenting children with diagnosed or suspected neurodivergences can bring additional challenges in many forms. You might find that all the “right ways” of doing things don’t work for your family; you might come up with ways of parenting that work beautifully for you, but attract criticism or suspicion from other people. If your children need accommodations and support, you might have to become an expert researcher, a tireless advocate, and an incredibly organised administrator, leaving not much time and emotional space to just be a parent, let alone to take care of yourself. This session will focus mainly on how to protect your own wellbeing and meet your own needs, while finding ways to parent that work for you and your family.
Please note that there is a separate session earlier in the month focused on the specific needs of neurodivergent parents.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Understand the practical, emotional and psychological impact on parents of parenting children whose needs don’t match the world’s assumptions.
- Build parents’ confidence in finding unique solutions and ways of living well as a family, even when these may look very different from other families’ lives.
- Find ways for parents to take care of themselves while supporting their neurodivergent children.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Parents of neurodivergent children, and people supporting neurodivergent children and their parents professionally or personally.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Appreciate the wide range of issues faced by parents of neurodivergent children, and understand how to support them to build confidence and promote their wellbeing.
RECORDING
This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.
ZOOM
This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
SELF-SELECT FEE
The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.
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Dr Emma Bede
Dr Emma Bede is a Clinical Psychologist with over twenty years of experience working with neurodivergent adults and children in clinical, diagnostic and academic contexts. She works therapeutically with adults of all ages, genders and neurotypes, as well as carrying out formal diagnostic assessments for autism and ADHD, and providing supervision to other therapists.
Website | www.willowpsychology.co.uk
