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Our post-diagnostic support offering
Healios L&D
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What Healios can offer
Post diagnostic support
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Testimonials and our future vision for this service.
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Which resources are included?
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What? What's the purpose of the PDS sessions?
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Engagement with clients and our clinicians commitment to best practice.
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How? How does our offering support clients?
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Why? Why do we need to offer post-diagnostic support (PDS)?
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At Healios, we recognise that our clients' journeys extend far beyond a diagnosis—in many cases, it's just the beginning. Our post-diagnostic support offering is designed to provide children, young people and their families the guidance they need to successfully navigate the path forward.
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These inclde topics like sensory difference, sleep problems, to name a few.
Offer support around specific topics
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That empower them to work with their ADHD or autism diagnosis.
Share helpful resources
To make sure clients have the right support in place.
Review risk and wellbeing since the diagnosis
This includes answering and follow up questions they may have.
Help with understanding of the diagnosis
The purpose of these post diagnostic sessions is to...
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We tailor sessions to individual preferences, needs, and goals using a collaborative, evidence-based approach involving families and skilled professionals. Leveraging technology, we signpost vital resources, prioritise understanding and self-disclosure. Our care package supports the entire post-diagnostic journey, promoting holistic well-being and empowerment.
We've developed a thorough support package for our clients who receive autism or ADHD diagnoses. This approach aligns with NICE and NHS England principles and prioritises individual and family involvement in decision-making.
Healios offers families up to three sessions of post diagnostic support.
Our post diagnostic offering
As well as the previous initiatives we've highlighted, we've also curated these helpful bookmarks for families to peruse.
Further resources for families
This includes session prompts to guide the therapeutic conversation, as well as a range of visual support resources.
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Slide decks
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Families enroled in the PDS service line can access online learning on a variety of neurodiversity topics.
Micro-learning modules
Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is the model we use. It prioritises finding realistic and workable solutions.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Our post diagnostic offering
Our post diagnostic offering
Our post diagnostic offering
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Our post diagnostic offering
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We've responded to client feedback around engagement and commitment to sessions. As a result, our booking and initial communications with clients have been revised. These changes offer clarity around how our clinical sessions work - and what next steps occur after a diagnosis.
Engagement
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Ensuring our clinical team who deliver post-diagnostic support services have access to the right development opportunities is critical. We do this by offering additional training and regular supervision sessions. The supervision sessions offer a safe, confidential space for staff to reflect on and discuss their work, receive feedback and seek advice on managing risks. What else do we offer?
- Internal CPD sessions that cover a range of topics such as post-diagnostic support, mental health and neurodevelopmental assessments.
- Access to external training via a personal development support fund.
- An in-house ADHD and autism cross-skilling programme.
Our commitment to personal and professional development
Feedback from a clinician
"I had a session last week using SFBT. At the end of the session the parent said that she really felt she was failing but after talking through what she was doing and all the strategies she was already implementing. She felt empowered and motivated to keep going..."
Feedback from a young person
"The clinician provided tips on how I could improve my anxiety and talked to me in a calm and understanding manner. She saw me as me and gave me tips on how to look at people and how to initiate and end conversations."
Feedback from a parent
"I would like to say how helpful and supportive the clinician has been. My son has found the sessions valuable. We've seen a clear improvement in his confidence and the strategies he uses on a daily basis. We will always be grateful for that and the resources and signposting provided."
Feedback from a parent
"I really gained an insight into my son's autism. He's much happier knowing that he's understood and that I understand him better after these sessions. I feel so much more empowered to support my son's autism. I found the sessions so helpful and informative."
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What's next?
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At Healios, we are continually working to improve our services for clients, which includes adding to our current offering. In the future, we aim to offer a broader range of post-diagnostic support packages such as:
- Offering evidence-based PDS group sessions to both parents and young people.
- Sleep support consultations.
- Adapted CBT for low mood and anxiety using a four to six session model.
- Parent-led CBT.
A range of visual resource slide decks are shared with families during sessions. They are used fluidly to support conversations about possible strategies and solutions that may be helpful for the specific topic they have brought to session. For example
During PDS sessions, the session prompt slide deck is used to keep the therapeutic conversation solution focused. Click below to access the deck.
Session prompt slide deck
Communication and behaviour resource deck
Slide decks
- SFBT is committed to finding realistic, workable solutions for clients quickly. The problems it can address range from everyday life stressors to higher-impact life events.
- Identifying motivation to change is important in SFBT. The emphasis is on the client, what they would like to be different as well as exploring what is changeable in a short time and realistic.
- The clinician explores what resources and strengths the client already has and how these can be used.
- SFBT also focuses on how the family can unite to support any difficulties associated with autism or ADHD and how the family as a unit can support the behaviours.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
(SFBT)
Unpicking the masking of ADHD
Subtle presentations in autism
The impact of autism on mental health
Understanding neurodiversity
What is "autism"?
How to talk about autism
When families are enrolled onto the PDS service line, they're also given access to short and informative online learning about a range of different topics associated with neurodiversity. Click below for temporary preview links to these modules: