Psykisk ohälsa bland ungdomar med autismspektrumtillstånd : En studie om socialarbetares och psykologers arbete och synsätt

Sammanfattning: The purpose of the study is to examine how social workers and psychologists work with adolescents who have autism spectrum disorders and suffer from mental illness. This includes examining what working methods social workers and psychologists work with and partly understanding what they consider to be the reason why adolescents with autism spectrum disorders experience anxiety and depression. The study's empirical material was collected through three semi-structured interviews with social workers and psychologists, then analyzed with previous research and theoretical perspectives and literature. A social worker and two psychologists, one of whom is from child and adolescent psychiatry and the other two are from habilitation. The study's theoretical frame of reference consists of three interconnected theories that social workers and psychologists can work with. The first is theory of mind, the second is central coherence and the third is executive functions. The result shows that social workers and psychologists identify information about adolescents with autism spectrum disorders who suffer from mental illness. It also emerges that BUP works with the treatment and medication of mental illness while the habilitation works with autism spectrum disorders and adolescents' behavioral problems by providing support efforts. In summary, the study's findings show that autism spectrum disorders are strongly related to mental illness. The study can conclude that the result has a good connection to previous research and theoretical perspectives.