Highly Sensitive Adults
Dr. Amy Hanes, PsyD
Birmingham Maple Clinic
Friday, August 16th 2024, 9:00am-11:00am
2 CEUs Available
IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE

This presentation will review best practices for working with highly sensitive persons (HSP) or sensory processing sensitivity. This will include examining research informed treatment, assessing for HSP traits, making accurate differential diagnoses, strategies for working with adults presenting as HSP and discussing the trait with them or their families, sensitivity and gender, issues in relationships, applicable tools, treatment planning, and reviewing applicable case studies. This presentation aims to help you understand what it means to be an HSP and ways you can be effective working with those clients.

Learning Objectives:

• Attendees will identify common misconceptions about HSP
  • Learn about the most common characteristics and mistaken conditions of the HSP trait
• Have an understanding of the neurological process of sensory processing
• Attendees will identify common misconceptions about HSP
  -Learn about the most common characteristics and mistaken conditions of the HSP trait
• Attendees will learn how to apply HSP research in a clinical setting (parenting, relationships, workplace, differential susceptibility etc..)
• Learn how to explain assessment practices of administration of assessments to determine HSP temperament
• Attendees will be able to identify and describe the four main subtraits of HSP
• Identify treatment strategies for working with a client with sensory processing sensitivity

Bio:

Dr. Amy Hanes is the President and CEO of Thrive Behavioral Health, P. C. She received her Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology from the Michigan School of Psychology. She has extensive clinical and neuro-rehabilitation experience working in a variety of settings including inpatient psychiatric, outpatient clinical, home and community environments, school and university counseling settings, adult day programs, health psychology, and PACE (Programs of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly).
Dr. Hanes specializes in providing psychotherapy to highly sensitive adults, victims of trauma, individuals who have suffered traumatic brain injuries as well as chronic health conditions, anxiety, depression, adjustment disorders and other psychiatric conditions. Dr. Hanes provides psychological evaluations, including bariatric presurgical evaluations, adult ADHD evaluations, personality testing, and adult autism screenings.

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