Publications by authors named "R Monk"
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- A study surveyed 253 individuals, including autistic adults, parents, and professionals from Australia and New Zealand, to understand opinions on support services for young autistic children.
- About half of the respondents thought support services were acceptable, while the other half felt it depended on the nature of the service provided.
- Three main ideas emerged: prioritize children’s experiences, avoid "fixing" the child while respecting their unique perspectives, and recognize that personalized early support can significantly benefit autistic children.
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- * A study of over 19,000 autistic youth revealed they had higher rates of hospitalization and specialist visits, particularly for mental health medications compared to non-autistic youth.
- * Autistic youth with intellectual disabilities showed increased physical health service usage but lower mental health service usage, indicating a gap in healthcare meeting the needs of autistic youth that requires further investigation and improvement.
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- The study explored the impact of risk perception during the COVID-19 pandemic on public cooperation and mental health, highlighting potential emotional distress risks.
- Researchers analyzed two groups of Chinese participants to identify different risk perception profiles related to pandemic response and emotional well-being.
- Results indicated that a specific profile—perceived-controllable-high-perceived-risk—led to the most cooperation and the least emotional distress, suggesting that this adaptive risk perception approach can balance effective pandemic control with mental health protection.
Visual perspective taking (VPT) generates a shared frame of reference for understanding how the world appears to others. Whilst greater cognitive and neurophysiological demands are associated with increasing angular distance between the self and other is well documented, accompanying attentional characteristics are not currently understood. Furthermore, although age and group status have been shown to impact task performance, other important cues, such as the relationship between agents and objects, have not been manipulated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Previous studies of community priorities for autism research have been limited by low representation of autistic people and thus a bias toward the views of families and professionals. We aimed to determine the first community-led priorities for autism research in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ).
Methods: Autistic people were essential partners in the project, from inception and design through to methods and outputs.