Name: Functional Analysis for Neurodivergent Adults – J. Kemp
Price: 220.00 PLN
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About the training

Using Functional Analysis to Guide Your Work with Neurodivergent Clients

Read behaviour in context, instead of just trying to stop it

You'll learn the three-term framework behind functional analysis – behaviour, context, and function – that Jennifer Kemp uses every session to work out why a client's skin-picking, meltdown, or 'obsessive' routine is happening, and what to build instead of just trying to make it stop.

Neurodivergent adolescents and adults face higher rates of trauma, sleep problems, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and psychiatric hospitalisation than their non-autistic peers, and often reach therapy only after several misdiagnoses along the way. That puts new pressure on clinicians, who have to learn to adapt their existing skills to work with this population in a way that is both effective and genuinely affirming.

Functional analysis has only three terms you need to know: behaviour (everything a person does, seen or private – what they say, how their body moves, and also their thoughts, emotions and physical sensations), context (anything outside the behaviour that shapes it – a therapy room, a family visit, a noisy office), and function (the purpose the behaviour serves inside that context). Kemp explains it with the image of a river: a strong, narrowing context – a client visiting critical parents, for example – presses in on the banks and speeds up the current, and a person’s repertoire of behaviour narrows and starts to feel automatic and out of control. A broader, more accommodating context lets that same behaviour widen out into calmer, more considered choices.

You’ll look at how external context – social norms, cultural expectations, and what a given environment treats as 'typical’ – presses on neurodivergent clients as a form of minority stress: the chronic, cumulative weight of masking, code-switching and daily micro-rejections that autistic and ADHD adults carry, linked in the research to poorer mental and physical health, lower self-compassion and internalised ableism – a sense that something is wrong with you simply for being different.

On the internal side, you’ll work through the genetic, neurobiological differences that shape autistic and ADHD behaviour: monotropism (a narrower, deeper focus of attention and interest, often shortened to SPINs – special interests), sensory hyper- and hyposensitivity, interoception (the ability to read internal body signals such as hunger, heart rate or emotion – a skill around 75% of autistic people struggle with), alexithymia (difficulty noticing or naming emotions), self-regulation through stimming, and differences in language and social-norm processing. For ADHD clients, you’ll add hyperfocus and interest-driven attention, executive-functioning differences, and sensory self-regulation through stimming and hyperactivity – and see just how much genetic overlap there is between the two: roughly 85% of autistic people meet criteria for ADHD, and at least half of ADHDers are also autistic.

Once you can name which of these differences is driving a specific behaviour, Kemp will show you how to apply the same lens to behaviours clinicians see every week – compulsions, body-focused repetitive behaviours such as skin-picking and hair-pulling, binge eating, self-harm and suicidal thinking – so you can tell a distressing-but-important self-regulation strategy apart from something that genuinely needs to change, and choose treatment accordingly.

Who it's for

Who this workshop is for

Therapists with some experience working with neurodivergent clients

You already see autistic or ADHD clients and want a sharper clinical framework – functional analysis – for reading their behaviour instead of relying on diagnostic checklists alone.

Clinicians who want to tell 'disordered' behaviour apart from neurodivergent need

You want a reliable way to tell a client's compulsion, stimming, or repetitive behaviour apart from a genuine coping strategy worth protecting, so you don't accidentally target something that's actually helping.

Neurodivergent practitioners

You're autistic or an ADHDer yourself and want tools that make sense of your own behaviour as well as your clients', from someone who works and teaches from the same lived experience.

Recommended: working knowledge of neurodiversity-affirming practice

This is an intermediate-to-advanced workshop. It moves quickly through material covered in Jennifer Kemp's earlier training, 'Working with Neurodivergent Clients: What Therapists Should Know' – you don't have to complete it first, but you'll get more out of this session if you're already comfortable with affirming language and the basics of neurodivergence.

Outcomes

What you'll learn

You'll be able to...

describe the three terms of functional analysis – behaviour, context and function – and apply them to a real client's presenting problem
use ongoing functional analysis as the guiding principle of neurodivergent-affirming therapy, including telling apart a 'disordered' behaviour from a neurodivergent need or preference
map how external context (social, cultural and normative pressure) and internal context (genetic, neurobiological differences) combine to narrow or broaden a client's repertoire of behaviour

You'll know how to...

apply functional analysis to sensory sensitivities, neurodivergent burnout, relationship breakdowns, meltdowns and shutdowns, emotional dysregulation, and poor person-environment fit
read a spiky profile of strengths and difficulties without defaulting to 'high/low functioning' labels
recognise minority stress, the double empathy problem, and internalised ableism as they show up in session

You'll practise...

building a therapeutic approach that helps neurodivergent clients create a better-fitting world for themselves, with self-advocacy, self-compassion and self-acceptance underneath it
your own case conceptualisation for a client you suspect may be autistic or an ADHDer
applying the same functional lens to compulsions, body-focused repetitive behaviours, binge eating, self-harm and suicidal thinking

Programme

What the training covers

The three terms of functional analysis

Behaviour, context and function – the whole framework, explained through Kemp's own case examples, and why treating every part of a person's behavioural stream equally changes how you work.
External context and minority stress

How social, cultural and normative pressure narrows a neurodivergent client's repertoire of behaviour, and why minority stress, masking and internalised ableism show up as chronic, cumulative harm rather than one-off stress.
Internal context: the autistic profile

Monotropism and special interests (SPINs), sensory hyper- and hyposensitivity, interoception, alexithymia, self-regulation through stimming, and differences in language and social-norm processing.
Internal context: the ADHD profile

Hyperfocus and interest-driven attention, executive-functioning differences, and sensory self-regulation through stimming and hyperactivity – and the large genetic overlap between autism and ADHD.
Applying it to real clinical behaviour

Working through compulsions, body-focused repetitive behaviours, binge eating, self-harm and suicidal thinking using functional analysis, plus your own case conceptualisation for a client of yours.

W pakiecie

Co otrzymujesz

Nagranie wideo

4 godziny zegarowe pełnego szkolenia w wysokiej jakości.

Dostęp na 3 miesiące

Oglądasz w dogodnym czasie, wracasz do materiału tyle razy, ile potrzebujesz.

Imienny certyfikat

Certyfikat z Twoim imieniem i nazwiskiem oraz podaną liczbą godzin.

Materiały dydaktyczne

Materiały do pobrania, które wesprą Cię w praktycznym zastosowaniu technik.

Nagranie po polsku

symultaniczne

220,00 zł jednorazowo, dostęp na 3 miesiące Add to cart

Szczegóły

Informacje organizacyjne

Wszystko, co warto wiedzieć przed zakupem — w jednym miejscu.

Kurs prowadzi: Jennifer Kemp
Certificate: Imienny certyfikat z datą szkolenia, liczbą godzin
Czas szkolenia: 4 godz.
Topic: Diagnoza i konceptualizacja, Neuroatypowość i ADHD, Samokrytycyzm, wstyd i perfekcjonizm
Language: angielski
Translation: symultaniczne

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Jennifer Kemp delivers the workshop in English, with simultaneous interpretation into Polish layered over the recording. The slides and all supporting materials are in English.

It’s a recording of the live webinar (around 3 hours 40 minutes) with simultaneous interpretation. You get 3 months of video access, extendable, plus a PDF certificate stating the number of hours.

It’s not required, but you’ll get more out of this workshop if you already know the language and basics of neurodiversity-affirming practice – see the note above.

No – it’s pitched at an intermediate-to-advanced level, for clinicians who already have some experience with neurodivergent clients or want to build specific therapeutic skills for this group.

Full video access for 3 months (extendable), a PDF certificate with the number of hours completed, and the workshop’s presentation materials.

Stop guessing why a behaviour is happening – learn to read it in context, the way Jennifer Kemp reads it with her own autistic and ADHD clients.

An intermediate-to-advanced clinical workshop on functional analysis – the framework behind acceptance and commitment therapy – applied specifically to autistic and ADHD adolescents and adults, taught by a clinical psychologist who is autistic and ADHD herself.

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Nagranie online Dostęp 3 miesiące Certyfikat imienny Materiały do pobrania

Using Functional Analysis to Guide Your Work with Neurodivergent Adolescents and Adults

Using Functional Analysis to Guide Your Work with Neurodivergent Clients

Who this workshop is for

Therapists with some experience working with neurodivergent clients