Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex developmental disorder that affects how people perceive the world and interact with others. People on the autism spectrum may have difficulties with social communication, social interaction and restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviours, activities or interests.
ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders)
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Can transdiagnostic CBT improve outcomes in children with ASD?
Transdiagnostic interventions apply the same underlying treatment principles across mental disorders, research in relation to ASD
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Can adult ASD outcomes be predicted by clinical measures made during childhood?
A new study has retrospectively profiled the adult outcomes of 123 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to determine whether certain outcomes, or “types”, can be predicted from typical clinical measures made during childhood.
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Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex, life-long, neurodevelopmental disorder that affects how people perceive the world and interact with others. Children with autism experience higher rates of mental ill health and behaviour problems.
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Autism Spectrum Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Editorial
This edition of The Bridge focusses on Autism Spectrum Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and emotions: are we missing something?
A higher prevalence of mental health difficulties for autistic people has been demonstrated, we need to ask ourselves why. Increasingly research is highlighting the differences between autistic and neurotypical (NT) emotional development.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Skills Update – special interest focus
An opportunity for clinicians to develop both their academic knowledge and clinical skills in working with people on the autism spectrum across the lifespan.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Skills Update – therapy focus
An opportunity for clinicians to develop both their academic knowledge and clinical skills in working with people on the autism spectrum across the lifespan.
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December 2019 The Bridge Editorial
It has been 2 years since The Bridge was relaunched in its current form. Each monthly themed edition publishes summaries of selected papers from the ACAMH journals – JCPP and CAMH – and occasionally features guest research digests. Over the past two years we have covered a huge range of topics and published over 170 research summaries and counting.
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Intolerance of uncertainty underlies demand avoidance behaviours in children
Researchers in Newcastle have conducted one of the first studies to conceptualise and understand the behavioural features of the pathological demand avoidance (PDA) profile — a proposed subtype of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) — in children and young people.
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Parental consanguinity predicts ASD severity
Parental consanguinity could predict ASD severity in this study after controlling for the effects of maternal health and developmental indicators.
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