Open access article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-025-07070-w

Abstract

Purpose

Studies have consistently shown that autistic individuals often find their interactions with healthcare professionals unhelpful, indicating unmet needs. This issue is exacerbated by healthcare professionals’ inadequate knowledge about autism and communication difficulties between healthcare professionals and autistic patients. This qualitative study sought to gain a deeper understanding of clinical encounters between healthcare professionals and autistic patients, from the perspectives of clinicians.

Methods

We conducted five in-depth focus groups with 20 experienced clinicians in Child and Adult Mental Health services in Norway. We used reflexive thematic analysis to analyze the data, using an inductive approach.

Results

We found that, overall, clinicians want to be respectful and flexible in their clinical encounters with their autistic patients. We also identified four themes, including that clinicians: 1) are attentive to the varied responses to diagnoses; 2) understand the importance of adapting their communication styles toward the needs of their autistic patients; 3) recognize the need for greater focus on quality of life and autonomy; and 4) acknowledge the significant role that parents play in autistic young people’s lives.

Conclusion

Although neurodiversity-affirming attitudes amongst clinicians are encouraging, whether they are demonstrated in practice needs further investigation. The findings indicate that support for autistic patients should be more comprehensive and persist for a longer time.

Citation: Øverland, E., Andersen, P.N., Skogli, E.W. et al. “One must think autism in everything one does”: Clinicians’ Experiences of Supporting Autistic Patients. J Autism Dev Disord (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-07070-w

Open access article: https://inlibrary.uz/index.php/science-research/article/view/69598

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This article is aimed at diagnosing autism spectrum disorders among adolescentsusing computer technologies, improving modern medicine, increasing the significance of computertechnologies in our daily lives, and enhancing the efficiency of future medical professionals inworking with computer technologies

Citation: Atakhanov, S., & Yoqubjonova, D. (2025). THE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF MODERN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF AUTISM IN YOUNG CHILDREN. Modern Science and Research, 4(2), 1034–1038. Retrieved from https://inlibrary.uz/index.php/science-research/article/view/69598

Open access article: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1265066/full

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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication skills, repetitive behaviors, restricted interests, and specific sensory processing. Particularly, adults with high-functioning ASD often remain unrecognized, presumably due to their high compensatory skills, but at the cost of high stress, which is often linked to anxiety and depression. This may further explain the significantly high suicide rates and reduced life expectancy among individuals with ASD. Thus, providing support to high-functioning autistic adults in managing core symptoms, as well as co-occurring anxiety and depression, appears essential. To date, only a limited number of evidence-based psychosocial therapeutic options are available, and very few of them have undergone rigorous evaluation in a clinical context. To obtain a comprehensive understanding, a systematic literature search was conducted according to the PRISMA checklist, and only studies demonstrating robust methodological quality were included and discussed in this review article. Although promising initial key factors and methods have been identified, additional evidence-based studies are imperative to ascertain the optimal treatment and evaluate the long-term outcomes for adults with high-functioning ASD.

Citation: Schweizer Tina , Endres Dominique , Dziobek Isabel , Tebartz van Elst Ludger, (2024). Psychosocial therapeutic approaches for high-functioning autistic adults. Frontiers in Psychiatry (14). https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1265066. DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1265066

Open access article: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1093252/full

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Introduction: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has characteristics that have been observed to develop over time, such as the difficulty of affective, sensory, and emotional processing, which trigger some problems during childhood, limiting children's development. Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is among the therapeutic approaches for ASD, in which treatment can be tailored according to the patient's objectives.

Objective: Based on ABA, we aimed to analyze the therapeutic strategy for independence in different skill performance tasks of patients diagnosed with ASD.

Method: This is a retrospective observational case series study including 16 children diagnosed with ASD who received ABA-based treatment at a therapeutic clinic in Santo Andre city, São Paulo State, Brazil. Individual task performance of different skill domains was registered in the ABA+ affective intelligence® software throughout the 12 months (from January 2021 to January 2022) of routine treatment.

Results: The evolution of skills was observed between the T0 and T1 intervals, with improved skills over the observed period.

Conclusion: The strategy based on the ABA methodology improved children's skill performance over the observed period.

Citation: Silva Alan Patricio da , Bezerra Italla Maria Pinheiro , Antunes Thaiany Pedrozo Campos , Cavalcanti Matheus Paiva Emidio , Abreu Luiz Carlos de., 2023.  Applied behavioral analysis for the skill performance of children with autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry (14).https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1093252 DOI:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1093252, ISSN:1664-0640

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This study aimed to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)-based parenting program for parents of autistic children. A pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted, with 40 parents randomly assigned to either the eight-session ACT-based parenting program or usual care. Feasibility was assessed by the rates of recruitment, attritions, and adherence to the intervention. Acceptability was evaluated through participant satisfaction surveys and semi-structured group interviews. Intervention feasibility was established with very satisfactory recruitment, attrition, and intervention completion rates. Both participant satisfaction survey and qualitative interviews suggested that the intervention was acceptable and beneficial for parents of autistic children. Compared to the usual-care-only group, participants in the ACT-based parenting program showed significant improvements in parental stress, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, psychological flexibility, self-efficacy, and reductions in emotional and behavioral problems in their children at the immediate post-intervention assessment. These findings support the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of the ACT-based parenting program for parents of autistic children. Future larger-scale RCTs can be conducted with longer-term follow-ups and more comprehensive assessment of its effectiveness for family caregivers of diverse groups of autistic children and/or other neurodevelopmental conditions.

Citation: Ni, L. S., Wai Tong, C., & Kam Ki Stanley, L. (2025). Effects of an acceptance and commitment-based parenting program for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder on parenting stress and other parent and children health outcomes: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Autism, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613241311323