Mental Healthcare and Autism
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2017)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mental healthcare for people with autism, over regulated behavior in autism and the impact of this on adaptation in crisis and transitions. Health policy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue on mental healthcare and autism in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
Working with people with autism on improving their health and well being is important at the individual level, but also as a public health measure given that a significant proportion, in excess of one percent, of the population has an Autism Spectrum Disorder. People with autism have a markedly different thinking and information processing style than their neurotypical counterparts. The experience of anxiety and depression is common for people with autism and results in behaviours, which impede adaptation and often cause distress for them and those who care for and work with them. People with autism have a relative deficit in recognising, labelling and thinking about feelings, but still experience them and are influenced by them often without making the connection. Mental healthcare is of great importance in this population in order to promote wellbeing and allow full participation in society. As a public health measure this benefits society as people are exposed to a different way of experiencing the world and society as a collective benefits from the optimum productivity of this group of people.
This Special Issue is open to any subject area related to mental healthcare for people with autism and understanding the link between feelings and behaviour in this group of people.
Prof. Dr. Andrew Cashin
Guest Editor
Keywords
- Autism
- ASD
- Psychosis
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Transitions
- Public health
- Quality of life
- Social participation
- Therapy
- Health economics
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