- Title
- How people with autism access mental health services specifically suicide hotlines and crisis support services, and current approaches to mental health care : a scoping review
- Creator
- Cleary, Michelle; West, Sancia; Hunt, Glenn; McLean, Loyola; Hungerford, Catherine; Kornhaber, Rachel
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article; Review
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/190039
- Identifier
- vital:17523
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2022.2108529
- Identifier
- ISSN:0161-2840 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- For people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the risk of mental illness, including suicidality, has a higher prevalence than the general population. This scoping review explored how people with ASD access suicide hotlines/crisis support services; and current approaches to delivering mental health services (MHS) to people with ASD. A search identified 28 studies meeting the selection criteria with analysis revealing four key findings. The support received by the person with ASD influenced how they accessed MHS; people often encounter barriers to accessing MHS; a separation exists between autism and MHS; and no studies on accessing or delivering MHS through crisis hotlines. The presence of such autism-specific crisis hotlines and the dearth of studies suggest a void in the existing research. © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Relation
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing Vol. 43, no. 12 (2022), p. 1093-1106
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- Subject
- 4204 Midwifery; 4205 Nursing
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This work was partially supported by a donation from Gullewa Limited.
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