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Improving Mental Health Therapies for Autistic Children and Young People: Promoting Self-agency, Curiosity and Collaboration

Editor : Georgia Pavlopoulou, Editor : Laura Crane, Editor : Russell Hurn, Editor : Damian Milton

Table of Contents

Section I - Integrating autistic understanding for better delivery of evidence-based mental health interventions
1. From disorder to difference: Shifting the narrative
Amy Pearson

2. Something needs to change: Making CAMHS accessible to autistic CYP and their families
Ann Memmott

3. The role of autistic agency in recovery from mental health illness
Alexis Quinn and Suzy Rowland

Section II - Understanding autistic mental health
4. Uncertainty and stress in autistic CYP
Ruth Moyse and Ellie Kolatsi

5. Understanding low mood, shutdown, and burnout in autistic CYP
Kieran Rose and Julia Avnon

6. Autistic Informed Trauma Practice: Moving away from Trauma as a diagnostic label to understanding what has happened to a person
Jon Adams

Section III - Autism and intersectionality
7. Improving access to mental health services for CYP from minority ethnic communities
Prithvi Perepa and Venessa Bobb-Swaby

8. Gender, sexuality & autism in the therapy room
Lucy Matthews

Section IV - Working in partnership with autistic CYP and their families
9. Working with parents and carers: An empathic Low Arousal approach to distressed behaviour
Andrew McDonnell

10. Working with siblings of autistic CYP
Nikita K. Hayden and Clare Kassa

11. Working with schools: A synergy approach
Richard Mills

Section V - Developing curiosity in-service delivery and service transformation
12. When the helping professions hurt - The need to build trust and make sense of each other in the therapy room
Kieran Rose and Roslyn Law

13. Supporting autistic children to thrive – It’s Everybody’s Business
Mairi Evans

14. Supervisors as agents of change
Virginia Lumsden

15. Working towards a Neuro-Diversity Informed Service for CYP
Russell Hurn, Laura Crane, Maciej Matejko, Tiegan Boyens, Catherine Asta, Damian Milton and Georgia Pavlopoulou