Healthcare Students' Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Peers with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Purpose: The present study investigates healthcare students' affective, behavioral, and cognitive attitudes toward hypothetical peers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the effect of the ASD label on their attitudes.

Methods: The MAS scale for ASD persons in the postsecondary education (Matthews et al., 2015) was translated and adapted in Greek according to the guidelines of World Health Organization (2016).

Parenting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder during Crises: Differential Responses between the Financial and the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis.

Parenting a child with autism can be particularly stressful and challenging, especially during periods of crises. This study focuses on parenting children with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic in comparison to the economic crisis, six years ago. We administered the same set of questionnaires (CES-D, F-COPES, PSI-SF, and WHOQoL-BREF), along with a demographic characteristic and a COVID-19-related questionnaire to the same group of parents of children with autism as we did six years ago.

Coping Strategies in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder and their relation to maternal stress and depression.

Having a child with autism may have a strong impact on the family, especially on mothers, who are usually the primary caregivers of children with autism. Parents of children with autism report more mental health problems compared to parents of children with typical development or other developmental disabilities. Parental copying strategies may play a significant role when parents have to overcome stressful situations during the child development.