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Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex-boarders, their families and, as ”wounded leaders” on the nation itself. (WPKN July 10, 2024) More about Nick and boarding school syndrome in psychotherapeutic […]

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Adolescence marks a time of increased vulnerability to developing mental health difficulties. Recent literature has pointed towards both risk and protective factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of co-occurring mental health difficulties amongst autistic adolescents. For example, autistic individuals may mask their autistic traits to fit in with neurotypical peers, but prolonged masking may negatively influence the development of one’s autistic identity and increase vulnerability to developing mental health difficulties. In this commentary, we focus our efforts on highlighting how 1) autistic identity and 2) masking behaviours may be considered within a holistic and person-centred formulation to guide treatment for mental health difficulties in autistic adolescents. In current clinical practice, mental health practitioners may not explicitly enquire about potential construct overlap between these autism related factors and other cognitive and behavioural factors that perpetuate mental health difficulties. We propose a series of assessment questions that clinical professionals may use when developing a shared understanding with autistic adolescents of how they perceive the relationship between autism and co-occurring mental health difficulties. Our goal is to support clinical professionals to consider ways of integrating advances in autistic identity and masking literature in autism to inform the assessment and formulation of co-occurring mental health difficulties when supporting autistic children and young people.

The development of error monitoring is central to learning and academic achievement. However, few studies exist on the neural correlates of children’s error monitoring, and no studies have examined its susceptibility to educational influences. ...

Occupation, and its relationship with health and well-being, is very complex. It can be described in many different ways by the profession within which it is so central that it provides its name. A s...

‪S Storm, K Jones‬, ‪English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 2021‬ - ‪Cited by 18‬

One of the key milestones for autism begins in the earliest stages of language acquisition and cognitive structuring, manifesting as a divergence of how language is coded as part of the social script. Unfortunately, the pervasive linguistic culture has been defined by allistic standards, which means that layers of implicit meaning and subtext are normalized in social engagement, especially with language games...

The concept of monotropism has, at its core, the idea that autistic people can enter a kind of 'flow state' when we are...

A growing number of children in Australia are struggling to attend school – the reasons why are complex and varied. "School refusal" refers to kids who expe...

Big tech is betting tens of billions of dollars on AI being the next big thing, but what if it isn't? ChatGPT burns obscene amounts of cash daily with little...

Louise Rogers & Tiffany Westphal from School Can’t Australia Who is School Can’t Australia?   School Can’t Australia (SCA) is a national peer support community, for parents and primary carers, supporting children and young people experiencing school attendance difficulties. SCA’s Facebook group was started in 2014 by a parent, travelling the School Can’t Journey alongside her…

There are some other things transpiring in American politics right now. But we must note that Democratic leaders are now unabashedly stating what Bernie Sanders supporters said over and over in 2020: the party pushed Joe Biden primarily to stop Bernie.

— Elaine Mcgreevy (@ElaineMcgreevy)

Learn why social skills training harms autistic people. Most SLT assessments are full of ableist, stigmatising language that assigns assumptions and judgments onto children. Autistic pragmatic language development are not accounted for.

Rachel Dorsey is an Autistic SLP in private practice, a consultant, and the creator of a new Learn Play Thrive course, Goal Writing for Autistic Students: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach.In episode 35, we cover the basics of the neurodiversity paradigm and why and how to write strengths-based goals. Rachel also gives us the inside scoop on her own journey towards neurodiversity-affirming practice.

Ground-breaking research: 'Autistic Masking: Understanding the narrative of Stigma and the Illusion of Choice' by Kieran Rose & Dr Amy Pearson

Kamala Harris’ “Coconut Tree” clip has TikTok contending with cognitive dissonance.READ MORE: https://www.dailydot.com/pop-culture/you-think-you-just-fell-ou...

I am a mermaid. I have always been a mermaid. As someone with cerebral palsy, my legs have always been somewhat questionable.

At the center of everything I’ve written for the last few months (if not the last few years), sits a cancerous problem with the fabric of how capital is deployed in modern business. Public and private investors, along with the markets themselves, have become entirely decoupled from the concept of what “good” business truly is, focusing on one metric — one

What is Autism? is a question that’s asked over and over but actually, when you dig beneath the surface, it’s actually very rarely answered.

Currently, Autism is classified as a diagnosable ‘neurological disorder’. Most non-autistic people think of Autistic people as ‘lacking empathy’ and […]

Atypical social communication is a key indicator of autism spectrum disorder and has long been presumed to interfere with friendship formation and first impress...

In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

Once a person calls police a certain number of times, they may be considered a nuisance and vulnerable to eviction – even domestic violence victims.

Nashville belongs to us — not the out-of-state neo-Nazis who have created havoc this week on our streets with their symbols of hate and vile words.