Cairns Psychological Assessment

02/05/2025

02/04/2025

24/12/2024

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Christmas break.

We will be taking some time out of the office, however we can be reached via email - info@cairnspsychologicalassessment.com

Look forward to seeing you all in 2025!

20/11/2024

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04/10/2024

Diversity Kids ❤️

28/08/2024

🧩Does your child have learning difficulties?🧩

Learning disorders such as dyslexia are relatively common. Learning disorders are biologically based, neurodevelopmental disorders which can result in academic achievement being significantly below what is expected for someone's age and intellectual ability.

Comprehensive assessment by a psychologist includes assessment of cognitive ability, academic achievement, and social, behavioural and emotional functioning can provide valuable insights about a child’s functioning and help guide interventions to maximise their learning potential.

Contact our office today on 07 4080 7305 or info@cairnspsychologicalassessment.com.au for more information or to arrange an assessment.

19/08/2024

health chats❤️

16/08/2024

Excellent breakdown of the diagnostic criteria 🧩

15/07/2024

Fantastic information and resources here 👏

15/07/2024

Siblings Australia has partnered with Alicia Meneses Maples, award winning blogger, TEDx speaker and sibling, to co-host two webinars which will “shine a light on siblings”. 💻

Siblings Australia will commence the series with 'Shining a light on sibling support: a webinar for parents'. This webinar will be hosted on Sunday, July 28 at 2pm ACST. Alicia will discuss important (and sometimes difficult) topics such as:

• Tips for ensuring your sibling child is seen and supported
• Things to look for – what are the signs your sibling child may be struggling
• What can be the flow on effects for sibling children in their adult relationships
• Recognition of medical trauma (vicarious witness trauma)
• Avoiding no-contact as your sibling child transitions into adulthood
• Addressing extreme co-dependence – setting parameters for healthy adult relationships

The second webinar 'Shining a light on what siblings have tried to bury: a webinar for adult siblings', will be hosted on Sunday, August 11 at 2pm ACST. Some of the topics Alicia will discuss are:

• You can’t heal what you don’t recognise
• How do I have the “future planning” conversation with my parents
• I’ve had to go no-contact – is there any going back?
• De-stigmatising therapy
• When is the right time to talk about my sibling experience with my parents?
• Recognising your past may leave you open to engaging in unhealthy relationships in your future

To register your virtual seat for the webinars, click the link in our bio and follow the steps outlined by Siblings Australia.🔗

Both webinars will be facilitated in a discussion format with the opportunity for registered attendees to participate in a Q&A session.

Please direct any queries to Siblings Australia 📩

https://siblingsaustralia.org.au/services/webinars/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2qCKLt0BoJCTkUEgW8PUNi63wTwIvMYhoQ_MU2Ex0qgGwbLGBATQTLnsU_aem_Pi5tF75eW4RfjqbUwcUliQ&utm_content=sked_668b8ac97ca738d4d5fbd3e6&utm_medium=social&utm_name=sked&utm_source=facebook

19/05/2024

All about autistic burnout 👇

The progression of autistic burnout
Due to the intensity of the autistic experience and differences in the sensory system, Autistic burnout impacts on the nervous system, triggering a fight/flight response.
As the nervous system progresses from general fatigue through to autistic burnout and beyond the supports, interventions, and time frames to recovery get bigger.

1. General Fatigue: Consistent mental and physical fatigue, general forgetfulness, everyday tasks become harder or more overwhelming.

2. Social Fatigue: Socialising is more tiring, it becomes harder to adapt to social environments and/or mask

3. Cognitive Fatigue: Increased difficulty with emotional regulation, task management and time management, there is increased brain fog

4. Occupational Burnout: Occupational burnout is when states of fatigue persist for several months. This impacts on the person’s ability to successfully complete daily tasks.

5. Continuation: Due to difficulties in body mapping, social expectations, recognising internal states, rejection sensitivity, masking, etc the autistic person persists

6. Autonomic Distress: The body goes into a flight/fight reaction, there is an increase in anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, cognitive confusion, meltdowns, shutdowns, avoidance, and anger.

7. Autistic Burnout: A state of allostatic overload. Often the autistic person continues to push through this state until they struggle to do even simple tasks and activities

8. Degradation: Persistent states of autonomic distress are unsustainable. Additional physical and/or psychological symptoms begin to manifest as well as increased difficulties in managing sensory input.

9. Cognitive Shutdown: Access to upper brain functions, like language, executive network, body schema and mapping, and motor functions begins to deteriorates.

10. Autistic Catatonia: When left unaddressed the signals from the upper brain become slower or interrupted. The ability to use speech, transition and manage motor function stops, slows, and/or becomes inconsistent, this leads to mild forms of autistic catatonia