 Irvine: Saturday, 10/25/08, 9:00am-4:00pm
Michael Linden, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, marriage and family therapist and a nationally certified biofeedback and neurofeedback therapist. Dr Linden was recently featured on Dr Phil's "The Doctors" nationally syndicated program, where he made a 20-minute appearance on October 9, 2008. Dr. Linden has specialized in the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) since 1982 and is the Director of the ADD Treatment Centers and Neurofeedback Programs at Mission Psychological Consultants’ three locations in San Juan Capistrano, Irvine and Carlsbad. He has published several studies on QEEG assessment and neurofeedback treatment of ADD over the past seven years (Journal of Neuropsychology, Journal of Biofeedback and Self-Regulation) and was one of the original Neurofeedback clinicians with ADD children in the 1980's. The ADD/Aspergers and Autism workshop will present the advances in the diagnosis of Autism, Aspergers and ADD using interviews, behavior rating scales, continuous performance tests and QEEG brain imaging. We will discuss the ADD/Aspergers/Autism connection and explain the similarities and differences in symptoms and QEEG patterns. The use of QEEG to discover which subtype of Autistic/Aspergers (5) and ADD (4) will be explained. In addition, this workshop will cover a multimodality treatment approach for patients with Autism, Aspergers and ADD. Neurofeedback candidate selection and treatment effects will be explained. Medication management will be reviewed. Social skills groups and parenting/behavior modification techniques will be presented. Psychotherapeutic treatments (individual, marital and family) will be reviewed. School-based modifications for students will be discussed. |
