Jeroen Dewinter

Identification of Capabilities of Autistic Young Adults: Towards an Understanding of Autistic Flourishing - Child Psychiatry & Human Development Views on autism shifted from a biomedical view to a neurodiversity-framework, with a parallel change in views on the nature of wellbeing. In this qualitative study the Capability Approach (CA), a theo...

Happy to share our paper on the capability approach as a framework to think about and discuss wellbeing with autistic young adults and their networks.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

LAVA Scholarship 2025 Wat een dag.

Proud to be the laureate of the first ever LAVA Scholarship for autistic researchers! Upon request: a link to the written version of my acceptance speech in Dutch, with English translation.

kathetgedacht.com/2025/02/22/l...

Thank you! I hope to honour this scholarship and the autistic community.

Congrats again @kathetgedacht.bsky.social! I was impressed and moved by your words. Happy to share them!

yes! interviews in English

Contact: For more info, fill out forms.office.com/e/iQn0pkxgQu
Or write to Themistoklis Pantazakos – ucrhtpa@ucl.ac.uk or +306973396440 (WhatsApp).
@themispant.bsky.social , @gertjanvanaken.bsky.social , @ilsenoens.bsky.social

Requirements:
      Autistic adults: Have been in psychotherapy for at 2-3 months.
      Psychotherapists: Have worked with at least 3 autistic clients over the last 10 years, using a psychotherapeutic approach with established clinical efficacy.

We are looking for pairs of therapists and clients. You will be asked to describe your experience of psychotherapy, minor and major changes, as well as what did and didn’t work according to your perspective.

Are you an autistic adult who is or has been in psychotherapy? Or, are you a therapist who works with autistic adults?
Take part in this interview study and help us better adjust psychotherapy for the autistic population.

A Critical Analysis of How Local Autism Strategies Represent Autistic Adults’ Intimate Lives | Autism in Adulthood Background: Intimate relationships are an important, yet ordinary, part of many people’s lives. However, autistic people experience greater challenges around sex and intimate relationships and more lo...

How do autism charities prioritize support for the intimate lives of autistic people? Jay et al critically reviewed all publicly available local autism strategies in England and found a clear lack of of positive and proportionate representations of intimate lives. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

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