Parenting Neurodivergent Teenagers
Wed, 17 Apr
|On Zoom
3 x 90 min sessions online: looking at issues such as education, puberty, mental health, drugs and alcohol, burnout and burnout recovery
Time & Location
17 Apr 2024, 19:00 – 20:30
On Zoom
About the event
3 x online sessions via zoom with Viv Dawes for parents of neurodivergent teenagers looking at:
Session 1: Transitions, education, school burnout, puberty
Session 2: Drugs and alcohol, mental health, crisis, eating disorders
Session 3: Burnout recovery, monotropic needs, what happens post 18, relationships
Viv has many years experience of working with vulnerable people including homeless young people and ex offenders in the criminal justice system. Most of the people she has worked with have been neurodivergent. She is also an autistic parent of an autistic teenager and has lived experience of burnout, mental health crisis, eating disorders and many issues that may affect families of neurodivergent people.