National audit of higher training posts in child and adolescent psychiatry in Ireland

Cohen, Dermot P.

doi:10.1192/pb.bp.109.028191

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“…Special needs should be considered for people with autism who are hospitalized with COVID-19. Two papers from the same institute in Paris, France [119,120] report initial experiences and quantitative data from a COVID unit for autistic patients only, created in an interdisciplinary collaboration between child and adolescent psychiatry and specialists for infectious diseases. This unit made it possible to respond to specific psychological and medical characteristics of patients with autism, such as a higher prevalence of gastrointestinal or immunological disorders.…”

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Psychosocial and Behavioral Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents with Autism and Their Families: Overview of the Literature and Initial Data from a Multinational Online Survey

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Since COVID-19 has become a pandemic, everyday life has seen dramatic changes affecting individuals, families, and children with and without autism. Among other things, these changes entail more time at home, digital forms of communication, school closures, and reduced support and intervention. Here, we assess the effects of the pandemic on quality of life for school-age autistic and neurotypical children and adolescents. First, we provide a comprehensive review of the current relevant literature. Next, we report original data from a survey conducted in several countries, assessing activities, well-being, and social life in families with autism, and their changes over time. We focus on differences between children with and without autism from within the same families, and on different outcomes for children with high- or low-functioning autism. While individuals with autism scored lower in emotional and social functioning than their neurotypical siblings, both groups of children showed comparable decreases in well-being and increases in anxiety, compared to before the pandemic. By contrast, decreases in adaptability were significantly more pronounced in autistic children and adolescents compared to neurotypical children and adolescents. Overall, although individual families reported some positive effects of pandemic restrictions, our data provide no evidence that these generalize across children and adolescents with autism, or even just to individuals with high-functioning autism. We discuss the increased challenges that need to be addressed to protect children and adolescents’ well-being under pandemic conditions, but also point out potentials in the present situation that could be used towards social participation and success in older children and young adults with autism.

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confidence: 99%