Safeguarding autistic girls : strategies for professionals.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Carly.

Contributor:

Beardon, Luke.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autistic girls--Social conditions.

Autistic girls.

Autistic girls--Protection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

"The author is autistic, and she is a leading name in the community with a significant media profile (she was the first British autistic woman to address the United Nations on autistic females' rights, and has received an MBE for her work in this area). Carly works directly with families and multidisciplinary teams to support autistic girls who are at risk of dropping out of education. The content of the book will be based on this experience, and address the face that many young/teenage (diagnosed/pre-diagnosis) autistic girls are either in trouble or absent from school, and are ping-ponging between mental health units, CAMHS, home, detention - often vulnerable to men, gangs, depression, self-harm, etc."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Safeguarding Autidsic Girls

Cover

Of related interest

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword by Dr Luke Beardon

Introduction

1. The Current Situation

Why are Autistic girls vulnerable?

Team diagnosed vs. team undiagnosed

The Autistic lens vs. the mental health lens

The problem with the educational system

We can't go on this way

2. The Risk to Autistic Girls' Safety

Sexual abuse

Bullying and mate crime

Teen pregnancy

Radicalization and gangs

Domestic violence and child marriage

3. How to Identify a Girl at Risk

Masking

Drink and drug use

Eating disorders

The common scapegoat

Burnout

4. Tried-and-Tested Strategies for Support

Working with individuals

Working with other professionals and agencies

Keeping an intersectional mindset

Working with the families

The life-saving gift of a peer group

5. Designing and Sustaining a New Blueprint

The untapped oil source

Ideas for the education system

Ideas for employment and media

Equal access to safeguarding in health care

Access to justice and legislative loopholes

Final Words

Endnotes

Useful Resources and Recommended Reading

Unfiltered Oversharing Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Jones, Carly Safeguarding Autistic Girls

ISBN:

1-78775-760-9

OCLC:

1287130811