The mental health of autistic people – research to improve fictional outcomes and quality of life

This talk will core features of autism and identifiable, additional mental health problems. Professor Simonoff will show how mental health problems in autistic people are often overlooked and confused with core symptoms of autism due to a concept called '’diagnostic overshadowing'. We will discuss the theoretical basis for the high levels of mental health problems in autistic people and will reflect on what interventions are currently available and research priorities for the future.

Professor Emily Simonoff, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Head of the Department and Academic Lead for the CAMHS Clinical Academic Group in King’s Health Partners.

Chair: Rebecca Gray

[MrAndywills]

Is autism a “recent condition” or (more likely) that it’‘s part of human variation in development, with autistics in existence for millennia.

[eddieafterburner]

Research to improve “fictional” outcomes … how apropos