Collateral damage: The impacts of school exclusion on the mental health of parents caring for autistic children

M Cleary, S West, C Johnston-Devin… - Issues in Mental …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Despite legislative and policy mechanisms that promote inclusion in education for children
with disabilities, many students still experience exclusion from the education setting. For …

A scoping review of autism and the way it changes the presentation of suicidal thoughts and behavior compared to the general population

M Cleary, S West, L McLean, GE Hunt… - Issues in mental …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Autism spectrum conditions are a group of neurodevelopmental conditions that carries an
array of co-occurring diagnoses, including a heightened risk of suicide attempts and suicide …

Two halves of the same whole: A framework to integrate autism and mental health services

M Cleary, S West, L McLean, R Kornhaber… - Issues in Mental …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Given the higher rates of co-occurring mental health issues experienced by autistic people,
there is a pressing need to implement an effective framework that integrates autism services …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a “new mothering” practice? The life experiences of mothers raising a child with autism in urban Ethiopia

RF Asmare, FN Taye, MG Kotecho, F Mishna… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurological and developmental disorder that
has seen an increase in prevalence over the past two decades, particularly in low and …

“It makes me a better person”: The unique experiences of parenting multiple children who experience neurodevelopmental disability

S Thompson-Hodgetts, MB Ortega, C Anthony… - Research in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Much research has explored how raising a child with a neurodevelopmental
disability influences parents' well-being. However, little research has focused on the unique …

The suitability and acceptability of a co-designed prototype psychoeducational activity book for autistic children aged five-eleven years

L Powell, G Wheeler, C Redford… - Autism & Developmental …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background and aims Evidence suggests that autistic children and young people (CAYP)
can benefit from age-appropriate psychoeducation. Co-design is a methodology that …

Dispersed responsibility of a collective problem: Autism, suicidality and the failure of knowledge translation

M Cleary, S West, R Kornhaber… - Issues in Mental Health …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
People on the autism spectrum are more likely to attempt suicide than non-autistic
individuals (eg, see Kõlves et al., 2021). But naming a problem is just the first step of many …

Emerging adulthood in autism: Striving for independence or interdependence?

C Moser, L Smith DaWalt, MM Burke, JL Taylor - Autism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
2 Autism 00 (0) involvement is problematic for emerging adults' wellbeing, taking hold of the
term “helicopter parenting,” defined by a high level of parental control in decisionmaking and …

'I'm his safe space': Mothers' Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care

A Holt - The British Journal of Criminology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Drawing on recent criminological scholarship on child to parent violence (CPV), this article
applies a feminist 'ethics of care'framework to understand how mothers of neurodivergent …

Exploring mothers' experiences of accessing an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) for an autistic child attending mainstream school in the United Kingdom

S Keville, M Mills, AK Ludlow - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Many autistic children are educated in mainstream settings, yet despite the benefits it can
present challenges for the children and their parents. A legal framework for accessing …