Resources and support: for professionals
There are many excellent resources out there for professionals - but they're not always easy to find! Here are my favourites.
You can also download these as PDFs - resources around mental health and suicidality, menopause and girls and women.
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AASPIRE Healthcare Toolkit: resources and advice for doctors.
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Mental Health Autism's Guide for GPs on autistic mental health. They have also produced tools for assessing suicide risk and symptoms of depression in autistic patients, and a safety plan template which you could complete with them.
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Warning signs of suicide - a fantastic resource with example cases. See here for a talk by the authors where example scenarios are enacted.
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Lisa Morgan's resources for different professionals. Here is some good advice around adapting your language when talking about suicidal thoughts and feelings.
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Autistica's guide to recognising crisis in young autistic people - some good advice that is relevant for adults too.
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The National Autistic Society have produced many articles for professionals around topics like suicide, self-harm, supporting pregnant autistic patients. There's also a professional guide to autistic burnout.
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Involved in treating eating disorders? This article from the National Autistic Society discusses adaptations to therapy. The PEACE pathway offers a lot of advice and resources for clinicians.
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National Autistic Society's advice for adapting talking therapies more generally.
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To prevent suicide in autistic people, Sue Willgoss of the National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA) has put together a brilliant presentation for professionals. You can view it here, or watch it here.
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If your client has experienced trauma, consider looking into Respond.
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Not specific to autistic suicide prevention, but consider looking at the wealth of resources here.