Tag: Research

Mental Health Crossroads Podcast – Interview with Dr. Ariel Schwartz

Mental Health Crossroads Podcast – Interview with Dr. Ariel Schwartz Picture of Dr. Ariel Schwartz

“I kind of have two strands of research. One is this methodological question of how do we do participatory research? Well, there are people doing it and but I still feel like there’s this big gap and in it being scaled up, and more people being confident, we need more people to feel confident doing […]

Mental Health Crossroads Podcast – Interview with Dr. Verity Rodrigues

Mental Health Crossroads Podcast – Interview with Dr. Verity Rodrigues Dr. Verity Rodriguez has dark brown, straight hair. Whe is wearing a dark blue blouse and smiling at the camera.

Episode 3 of the MHDD Mental Health Crossroads podcast, Dr. Verity Rodrigues discusses how hard it is for organizations, providers, and autistic individuals themselves to realize that people with autism can also experience mental health challenges like anxiety or depression. This leads to other challenges with diagnosis and treatment. Advocates and researchers are only recently […]

The Skills System

The Skills System is a user-friendly set of emotion regulation skills, designed to help people of various ages and abilities, manage emotions. Learning how to regulate emotions enables us to be present in the moment and be more effective–even in stressful situations. Over- and under-reacting can cause more stress and problems. The Skills System helps […]

What Do NCI Data Reveal About People Who Are Dual Diagnosed with ID and Mental Illness?

The understanding that people can be dually diagnosed with intellectual disability (ID) and mental illness is relatively recent. Up until the last 30 to 40 years, it was assumed that people with ID could not also have a mental illness, and behavioral challenges were seen as a consequence of cognitive limitations rather than possible symptoms […]