Autism SIG and the Mental Health SIG - Supporting Wellbeing in Autistic Young People - 13th November 2025

Autism SIG and the Mental Health SIG - Supporting Wellbeing in Autistic Young People - 13th November 2025

Please see below for more details on Kate Cooper who will be delivering this talk. To sign up, click the eventbrite link below!

Eventbrite link:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/slt-autism-mental-health-sigs-joint-cpd-event-with-drkate-cooper-tickets-1848615060409?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

About Kate Cooper:

https://profile.ucl.ac.uk/98531-kate-cooper/about 

I am a Clinical Psychologist, Associate Professor, and NIHR Advanced Fellow at the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London. My overarching research objective is to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying mental health and wellbeing in autistic young people, with the ultimate goal of refining psychological interventions tailored to this group.

In this talk, I will share research findings about factors supporting wellbeing in autistic young people, to help guide your clinical practice to support autistic youth to flourish. I will share the findings from working with the autistic community to coproduce a wellbeing intervention for autistic teenagers. I will share the guiding principles which are shaping an intervention which is appealing for autistic teenagers. These principles and co-design work has led to a beta version of an intervention which can be tested in future to find out if it improves wellbeing in this group.