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The Clayton Hotel Limerick, Limerick, Limerick

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Parent and Professional Joint Event
Promoting Positive Mental Health for you and your child
With Dr. Lenny Thornton
 

Course Description
This Parent and Professional Event will examine how mental health problems affect children and young people with autism, and their family. It will look at how these problems present and what can be done to help your child...and you.
 

Expected Outcomes
Participants will have an increased understanding of: 
• Mental health problems and how you can recognise them in your child
• Helpful interventions
• How your own mental health can become affected
• How to look after your own mental health
 

Course Overview
• The range of mental health problems in children and adolescents with autism
• The presentation of mental health problems
• The causes of mental health problems
• Mental health interventions (and their limitations)
• Practical help you can give your child
• The stresses on parents and how to cope

Location

The Clayton Hotel Limerick
Steamboat Quay
Limerick
Limerick
V94 H6HN
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Dr Lenny Thornton

Dr Lenny Thornton MB ChB, FRCPsych is an independent consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry based in Chester. Lenny has a particular clinical interest in autism and in 1997, until his retirement from the NHS in 2011, he ran the West Cheshire Autism Disorders Assessment Service. Since then, he has developed an independent autism diagnostic service in Cheshire. Lenny has lectured nationally and internationally on autism and related disorders. He is also the parent of a son who has Asperger syndrome

Event summary

Date

Start Time

End Time

The Clayton Hotel Limerick , Limerick , Limerick

Closed