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Symptom change in depression and anxiety during psychological therapy for autistic adults - Nature Mental Health
Abstract Autistic people are less likely to benefit from currently recommended mental health treatments, but little is known about how outcomes vary across individuals. This gap makes it difficult to adapt therapies (or develop new ones) to meet diverse needs among autistic people.
Understanding the Autistic Experience of Restrictive Eating Disorders—A Systematic Review and Qualitative‐Synthesis
Autistic people, parents and healthcare professionals consistently report that autism plays a significant role in the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa. These autism-related difficulties are not reliably integrated into the formulation and treatment of the eating disorder. To correct this there is a need to develop autism-adapted treatments alongside training programmes for clinicians.
Recommendations for Advancing Understanding of Eating Disorders in Neurodivergent People: A Commentary on Inal‐Kaleli et al. 2024 and Nimbley et al. 2024 - Herle - International Journal of Eating Disorders - Wiley Online Library
1 Summary of Findings Recent research shines a light on the co-occurrence of neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism, with mental health problems, revealing that, compared to non-autistic peers, autistic people experience elevated risk of a broad range of mental health conditions.
Short report: Evaluation of wider community support for a neurodiversity teaching programme designed using participatory methods
Children with neurodevelopmental diagnoses such as autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia face a number of adverse outcomes at school, including higher rates of peer victimisation, increased school exclusion and poorer mental health compared to peers without such diagnoses (Øksendal et al., 2019; Fleming et al., 2020; Hansen et al., 2018; Paget et al., 2015).
How can autistic adults be supported in primary care?
O’Nions et al’s recent analysis of autism1 helpfully highlights how primary care can help and the problem of under-diagnosis of autism. However, we were disappointed that the article does not mention the importance of screening autistic patients for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
The old and the new way of understanding autistic lives: Reflections on the life of Donald Triplett, the first person diagnosed as autistic
Earlier this month (I write this in June 2023), Donald Gray Triplett III died at the age of 89, in his home in Forest, Mississippi. Mr Triplett was the first person to be diagnosed as autistic, after he was taken by his parents in the late 1930s to the clinic of the eminent child psychiatrist Dr Leo Kanner.
Improving diagnostic procedures in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Back to Journals » Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment » Volume 20 Authors Cook J, Hull L, Mandy W Received 23 May 2023 Accepted for publication 14 February 2024 Published 7 March 2024 Volume 2024:20 Pages 505—514 DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S372723 Checked for plagiarism Yes Review by Single anonymous peer review Peer reviewer comments 2 Editor who approved publication: Dr Roger Pinder Julia Cook,1,* Laura Hull,2,* Will Mandy3 1Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry...
Mental health and social difficulties of late‐diagnosed autistic children, across childhood and adolescence
Abstract Background Autism can be diagnosed from 2 years of age, although most autistic people receive their diagnosis later than this after they have started education. Research is required to understand why some autistic children are diagnosed late, and the level and nature of unmet need prior to diagnosis for late-diagnosed children.
Six ideas about how to address the autism mental health crisis
The autism mental health crisis can be described with the following paradox: autistic people have a high chance of developing mental health problems but a low chance of receiving effective help. In this editorial, I outline the mental health challenges that autistic people experience under current systems of care and share some ideas about how clinicians, researchers and members of the autism community can work together to address this situation.
Developmental trajectories of autistic social traits in the general population
References Anderson, D. K., Maye, M. P., & Lord, C. (2011). Changes in maladaptive behaviors from midchildhood to young adulthood in autism spectrum disorder. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 116(5), 381–397. doi: 10.1352/1944-7558-116.5.381.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed Angold, A., Costello, E. J., Messer, S. C., Pickles, A., Winder, F., & Silver, D. (1995).
Autistic Cognition: Charting Routes to Anxiety
Highlights Autism appears to be related to several cognitive differences, including attenuated predictive processing and intolerance of uncertainty. Preliminary evidence also suggests a ‘black and white’ thinking style. In non-autistic people, anxiety is often causally related to cognitive biases, and the aforementioned cognitive differences all have strong links to anxiety in autistic people.
A new era for autism research, and for our journal
Autism research is changing. There is more of it than ever before. In August 2017, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), the advisory committee that coordinates federal efforts and provides advice to the US government on issues related to autism, recommended that autism-related research funding in the United States should increase further still, doubling by 2020. If this recommendation were successful, US lawmakers would commit an unprecedented amount of funding to autism research.
Social camouflaging in autism: Is it time to lose the mask?
Many autistic people feel obliged to pretend not to be autistic. They invest considerable effort daily in monitoring and modifying their behaviour to conform to conventions of non-autistic social behaviour. This phenomenon has come to be called ‘social camouflaging’, also referred to as ‘masking’, ‘compensation’ and ‘pretending to be normal’ (Hull et al., 2017; Lai et al., 2017; Livingston, Colvert, et al., 2019). Camouflaging strategies are diverse.
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