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NEW PUBLICATION “The World’s Really Not Set Up for the Neurodivergent Person”: Understanding Emotion Dysregulation from the Perspective of Autistic Adults

NEW PUBLICATION  Helping Practitioners Stop, Drop, and Roll: Suggestions to Help Improve Responses to Intense Clinical Events

NEW PUBLICATION  Are autistic females at greater risk of suicide? A call for clarity to advance suicide prevention for the whole community

Senate Bill 506 is Now Act 61 of 2023!

NEW PUBLICATION: EDI-YC, an inventory of emotional dysregulation in young children

Congratulations to Safaa Eldeeb for winning a Poster Award at Data & Dine Symposium! 

Jessie Northrup, PhD, Receives Two Awards from the International Society for Autism Research

Pitt Psychiatry Awarded $11.5M National Institute of Mental Health Center Grant Focused on Investigating Emotional and Mental Health in Autistic Adults | University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry

NIH awards $100 million for Autism Centers of Excellence program (prnewswire.com)

A Naturalistic Study of Emotion Dysregulation, Self-injurious Behavior & Aggression in Autistic Youth | University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry

The Department of Psychiatry Welcomes Kelly Beck, PhD, LPC, CRC, to the Faculty | University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Promotes Jessie Northrup, PhD, to Assistant Professor of Psychiatry | University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry

New study from the REAACT lab lead by Dr. Caitlin Conner documents rates of elevated emotion dysregulation are seven times higher in autism

New Oxford University Press Handbook of Autism and Co-Occurring Psychiatric Conditions, Co-edited by Dr. Carla Mazefsky

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Promotes Carla Mazefsky, PhD, to Professor of Psychiatry | University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry

SPARK for Autism | Autism, Meltdowns, and the Struggle to Manage Emotions