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Autism and Managing Worries

Autistic children and young people are more likely to experience anxiety than their non-autistic peers, this anxiety can also be experienced more intensely and more often than other children. Managing anxiety includes identifying anxiety triggers and recognising anxious feelings. It is also important that we develop supports for managing anxiety, this often includes relaxation techniques, use of structured environments and visual practices. Supportive practices to help your child or young person manage his or her worries can be an effective anxiety management tool. This includes techniques such as worry time and worry jars.

This training will

  • Help to understand common worries experienced by autistic children
  • Provide approaches to support children communicate and express their worries
  • Offer increased understanding of concepts such as worry time and the use of worry jars
  • Encourage how to support a child to release worries

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Edel Quinn

Edel Quinn

Edel Quinn is an Autism Trainer/Advisor in Middletown Centre for Autism. Before taking up this post, Edel worked in the National Health Service, Northern Ireland (NHS), developing and delivering home programmes for autistic children and young people, and their families. Edel holds a Psychology degree and an MSc in Autism from Queen’s University, Belfast and a Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Edel's main specialisms are in early intervention and delivering training in the implementation of visual strategies and behaviour. Edel is a Certified TEACCH Trainer with Division TEACCH, North Carolina. Edel has developed and delivered anxiety trainings and anxiety research projects to parents and professionals across Ireland. She has delivered at Autism and Mental Health Conference, NAS and the Autism Congress. Edel is an associate lecturer on the Post Graduate Autism Certificate with Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Edel is working towards accreditation with BACP as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist.

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