World Autism Acceptance Month and World Autism Awareness Day – highlighted content
In support of World Autism Acceptance Month and World Autism Awareness Day, please find below some content highlights from Emerald Publishing’s key journals in this area:
Advances in Autism
Open Access: From misunderstanding towards recognition: narratives of autistic women and girls in news articles
- Research on women’s and girls’ experiences of being autistic in news stories from the recognition perspective is scarce, particularly in the Finnish context. The media has a powerful role in society as an information producer. Combining the knowledge gap with the available data in the media, the authors provide windows on the narratives of autistic women and girls.
Free Access: Parenting stress and coping across five countries
- The report suggests a degree of similarity across most aspects of parenting across diverse countries, although some atypical results from the UK may mean caution is needed in drawing generalised conclusions from such higher-income countries.
Free Access: Underdiagnosis of autism spectrum disorder: a narrative review of gender differences and systemic barriers
- This review integrates gender, cultural and system-level perspectives on autism spectrum disorder underdiagnosis, offering actionable guidance for clinicians, educators and policymakers to support timely and equitable diagnosis.
Free Access: Autistic people’s perception of social camouflaging: qualitative analysis of a Web forum
- The findings of this study strengthen existing knowledge about camouflaging by adding new analysis conducted directly on conversations happening organically.
Free Access: Building belonging through empathy: a study of community-centered autism support
- The findings reveal how communities designed around radical acceptance enable individuals to work on personal growth areas from a foundation of safety and belonging, creating sustainable pathways where behavioral diversity becomes a source of collective wisdom and strength.
Journal of Enabling Technologies
Free Access: Approaches for meltdown detection in children with autism: a scoping review
- This paper is first of its type aiming to review and categorise existing literature related to approaches for emotion and arousal detection in children with Autism to identify gaps where contemporary computer science methods may help.
The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice
- These findings highlight the effectiveness of ABA-based training in enhancing staff competence and reducing reliance on restrictive measures, advocating for broader implementation of such training programs to improve outcomes for patients with ASD in psychiatric settings.
Mental Health and Social Inclusion
Free Access: Compassionate challenge: a co-production approach to autism training in mental health services
- This project demonstrates the clear need for autism training in CMHTs and supports PS inclusion in professional training. It examines co-production experience and benefits through reflections from both professional and PS perspectives.
The Journal of Adult Protection
Free Access: Investigating deaths of people with autistic spectrum disorder in health and social care in England and Wales
- This paper makes an initial step in highlighting significant structural failures that can lead to preventable deaths.
Tizard Learning Disability Review
Free Access: Teaching autistic students: a preliminary exploration of trainee teachers’ experiences, knowledge, and self-efficacy
- Findings from this preliminary exploration into the knowledge, experiences and self-efficacy of trainee teachers working with autistic students in England suggested that specialist knowledge of autism, teacher self-efficacy and opportunities for training were lacking.
Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities
- To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first review taking a historical perspective in analyzing the development of approaches for dealing with aggressive behavior in adults with ID/ASD in formal settings. This perspective enables considering past unproductive paths and inspires the development of new approaches.
International Journal of Prison Health
Free Access: “The black box of scary memories”: a prison-based trauma intervention case report
- This case study contributes to the limited literature on trauma-focused psychotherapy with women in prison. The case highlights the therapeutic potential of collaborative and tailored interventions, while recognising the challenges related to gender, trauma, autism and the constraints of the prison environment.