Introduction Section 1: Integrating autistic understanding for better delivery of evidence-based mental health interventions
1. From disorder to difference: Shifting the narrative
2. Something needs to change: Making CAMHS accessible to autistic CYP and their families
3. The role of autistic agency in recovery from mental health illness Section 2: Understanding autistic mental health
4. Uncertainty and stress in autistic CYP
5. Understanding low mood, shutdown, and burnout in autistic CYP
6. Autistic Informed Trauma Practice: Moving away from Trauma as a diagnostic label to understanding what has happened to a person Section 3: Autism and intersectionality
7. Improving access to mental health services for CYP from minority ethnic communities
8. Gender, sexuality & autism in the therapy room Section 4: Working in partnership with autistic CYP and their families
9. Working with parents and carers: An empathic Low Arousal approach to distressed behaviour
10. Working with siblings of autistic CYP
11. Working with schools: A synergy approach Section 5: Developing curiosity in-service delivery and service transformation
12. When the helping professions hurt - The need to build trust and make sense of each other in the therapy room
13. Supporting autistic children to thrive ? It’s Everybody’s Business
14. Supervisors as agents of change
15. Working towards a Neuro-Diversity Informed Service for CYP