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

Introduction? Section 1: Integrating autistic understanding for better delivery of evidence-based mental health interventions??1. From disorder to difference: Shifting the narrative? 2. Something needs to change: Making CAMHS accessible to autistic CYP and their families? 3. The role of autistic agency in recovery from mental health illness? Section 2: Understanding autistic mental health??4. Uncertainty and stress in autistic CYP? 5. Understanding low mood, shutdown, and burnout in autistic CYP? 6. Autistic Informed Trauma Practice: Moving away from Trauma as a diagnostic label to understanding what has happened to a person? Section 3: Autism and intersectionality??7. Improving access to mental health services for CYP from minority ethnic communities? 8. Gender, sexuality & autism in the therapy room? 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? 10. Working with siblings of autistic CYP? 11. Working with schools: A synergy approach? 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? 13. Supporting autistic children to thrive  Its Everybodys Business? 14. Supervisors as agents of change??15. Working towards a Neuro-Diversity Informed Service for CYP

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.

'The Editors take a genuinely collaborative approach to an area within the autism field that is often both overlooked and misundersl“4