Neurodiversity, Autism and Healthcare

Duration: 42 mins DOI: 10.13056/acamh.26814

Description

In this Papers Podcast, Professor Jonathan Green discusses his CAMH journal Debate paper ‘Debate: Neurodiversity, autism and healthcare’.

Learning Objectives

1. The current experience of CAMH professionals working in the field of neurodiversity.
2. The evolution of the autism concept and where we are currently in our understanding.
3. The different realities of autism (as a clinical concept, an administrative term, and as a self-identification) and whether these different realities can co-exist.
4. The risk of fragmentation and loss of a common language and why it matters to have a common language.
5. Insight into an evidence-based framework for autism.
6. Autism as emergent and transactional and the impact for CAMH professionals.

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Professor Jonathan Green

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University of Manchester and Hon Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital

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