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Mental Health and Suicide in Autistic Teens and Adults

Carla Mazevsky PHD, is the Nancy J Minshew Endowed Chair in Autism Research, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and Translational Research at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an expert in key emotional aspects of Autistic people at all ages. This Podcast presents and focusses upon the challenges of overcoming/treating this unifying concept/reality among autistic people relating to “emotional dysregulation”. This is a fundamental/measurable concept and is characteristic of autistic people.

Release date: April 14, 2024

References

  • Mazefsky, Carla A., et al. “The Role of Emotion Regulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 52, no. 7, 2013, pp. 679–88, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2013.05.006.
  • Mazefsky C. The Emotion Dysregulation Inventory. In: Volkmar FR, editor. Encyclopedia of autism spectrum disorders. Vol. 4. 2018.