Improving Mental Health Therapies for Autistic Children and Young People: Promoting Self-Agency, Curiosity and Collaboration

This unique, collaborative book, featuring contributions from autistic and non-autistic experts, presents cutting-edge thinking on mental health and service transformation in relation to autistic children and young people (CYP) and their families.

Georgia Pavlopoulou is Associate Professor at University College London, psychotherapist, Director and Co-strategic Lead of the NHS funded National Autism Trainer Programme at Anna Freud and founder of UCL’s Group for Research in Relationships And Neurodiversity-GRRAND.

Laura Crane is Professor of Autism Studies at the University of Birmingham, where she is Director of the Autism Centre for Education and Research (ACER).

Russell Hurn is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Programme Director for the CYP IAPT Programme at Anna Freud. He specializes in trauma and is an EMDR consultant/supervisor.

Damian Milton works part-time for the University of Kent as a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.