"I often have to explain to school staff what she needs". School experiences of non-autistic siblings growing up with an autistic brother or sister.

Background: Recent autism research has evidenced a shift from psychological outcomes to contextualised approaches to understanding the varying needs of non autistic siblings of autistic children across different systems. Yet, there is limited research exploring the lived experiences of siblings in their school context.

Methods: First, a group of school aged sibling advisors worked with the first author to codesign research aims, methods and dissemination practices around the topic of the school experiences of siblings who grow up with an autistic brother or sister in the UK.

The emergence of psychiatry at McGill.

Psychiatric services in Canada lagged behind other medical disciplines until World War II emphasized the need for psychiatrists in the Armed Forces. This led to steps being taken to fulfil this need. At McGill, a new Department of Psychiatry, centered at the Allan Memorial, was established in 1943, due to the vision of Dean Jonathan Meakins and the influence of Dr.

The development of psychiatric research in Canada up to 1964.

Systematic developments in psychiatry came later than in modern medicine, in Canada as elsewhere. Empirical discoveries of significance for the latter occurred in the 18th century, those for psychiatry only in the 20th, depending on much more sophisticated technology. The emergence of an appreciation of emotion as a central factor in mental illness was spurred initially by Freud and then emphasized by the social disasters of two world wars.