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Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Differences in Autism
Tuesday, 21 January, 2025
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13662 In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Nicky Greaves discusses her JCPP Advances Clinical Review paper ‘Emotion regulation difficulties and differences in autism including demand-avoidant presentations—A clinical review of research and models, and a proposed conceptual formulation: Neural-preferencing locus of control (NP-LOC)’. Learning Objectives 1. Insight into a definition of emotion regulation and emotion dysregulation and what the research says about the emotion regulation difficulties and differences in autistic young people. 2. The impact of core autistic features on emotion regulation in autistic individuals and the relationship between emotion regulation difficulties and demand-avoidant presentations in autism. 3. Effective and ineffective strategies for emotion regulation and the current models for emotion regulation differences for autistic young people. 4. How emotion regulation abilities develop in neurotypical populations. 5. Insight into the Neural Preferencing Locus of Control (NP-LOC) formulation hypothesis in autism and how the NP-LOC model can contribute to our understanding of anxiety and depression in autistic individuals. 6. The practical implications for education and clinical practice and the impact of early interventions and social understanding on emotion regulation in autistic children.
