Neurodiversity, Autism and Healthcare

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.26814
In this Papers Podcast, Professor Jonathan Green discusses his CAMH journal Debate paper ‘Debate: Neurodiversity, autism and healthcare’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12663). This podcast coincides with World Autism Acceptance Week.
Discussion points include:

• The current experience of CAMH professionals working in the field of neurodiversity.
• The evolution of the autism concept and where we are currently in our understanding.
• 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.
• The risk of fragmentation and loss of a common language and why it matters to have a common language.
• Insight into an evidence-based framework for Autism.
• Autism as emergent and transactional and the impact for CAMH professionals.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.