Mental Health and Autism
July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month… and in that spirit, we have searched far and wide for some NEWS YOU CAN USE… this time coming from our friends at MAD IN AMERICA.
HERE we found a recent article highlighting how the minority stress model can be used to explore the impacts of social stress on autism and mental health, citing that as autism is primarily researched from a biomedical perspective, the social factors that may contribute to mental health issues in autistic people remain underexplored.
Worth noting is the fact that the minority stress model explores how minority status, or belonging to a marginalized social group, contributes to discrepancies in mental and physical health between minority individuals and those who are a part of the majority population and that using this model opens up exploration beyond the individual… but allows researchers to examine how social stressors like discrimination and internalized stigma impacts the mental health of the autism community.
