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Improving mental health therapies for autistic children and young people : promoting self-agency, curiosity and collaboration

Improving mental health therapies for autistic children and young people : promoting self-agency, curiosity and collaboration - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2024 - xxix, 214 p.

Section 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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 5: 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


This unique, collaborative book, featuring contributions from autistic and non-autistic experts, presents cutting-edge thinking on mental health and service transformation in relation to autistic children and young people (CYP) and their families. Investigating how to implement collaborative approaches to supporting autistic CYP's mental health, the book considers ways for professionals to share power and co-design models of support, promoting self-agency and supportive environments for autistic acceptance and wellbeing. Each chapter includes reflections and vignettes from autistic CYP and allies, key questions and thinking points for readers to consider. The book also includes a link for an e-library with multimedia material with the top take aways for clinicians such as animations, flyers and recorded interviews. The book will be of immense interest to individuals working with autistic CYP and their families in mental health at any level

9781032372525 9781032402840


Autism
Autistic children
Mental disorders
Therapy
Mental health services
Co-production
Service delivery
Consumer participation