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A critical overview of how English health and social care publications represent autistic adults' intimate lives.
- Source :
- Critical Social Policy; Nov2023, Vol. 43 Issue 4, p626-653, 28p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Autistic people face more social barriers to, and experience greater anxiety around, intimate relationships than the general population in our majority neurotypical society, leading to increased loneliness and social isolation. National health and social care policies and publications should recognise these inequalities and guide service systems in reducing them. In this paper, we employ a document analysis design to analyse a cross-section of English national health and social care publications to investigate how autistic adults' intimate lives are represented and prioritised in these publications. Most publications do not adequately and proportionally recognise or prioritise autistic people's intimate lives. They focus on the risks associated with sex and relationships and overlook autism-specific intimacy needs. They prioritise participation in the workforce while renouncing government responsibility for supporting intimate relationships which can reduce loneliness and alienation. We offer recommendations to ensure that health and social care publication processes better recognise intimate lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SOCIAL participation
RISK-taking behavior
SOCIAL support
ENGLISH language
INTIMACY (Psychology)
PSYCHOTHERAPY patients
SERIAL publications
HUMAN sexuality
SOCIAL alienation
EXPERIENCE
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
HEALTH
AUTISM
QUALITY of life
PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
SEX customs
LONELINESS
GOVERNMENT policy
HEALTH equity
POLICY sciences
SOCIAL case work
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02610183
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Critical Social Policy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 172986815
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221142216