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Mary Baker Eddy\u27s Households: Community Experiments in early Christian Science History
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Lesson Plan for Introducing Primary Sources to 8th Graders
Get PDFA lesson plan for introducing primary source analysis to a visiting 8th grade class. This lesson was planned in conjunction with the 2025 National History Day projects the students were working on, under the theme of Rights and Responsibilities
Inside Out: Autistic Psychologists on the Power Structures of Diagnosis
Get PDFHow do relationships between medicalized diagnostic powers and training intersect with the complex social identity of autism? How does self-identification (self-diagnosis) challenge the diagnostic status quo, created and scaffolded by enormously powerful social systems? In this paper, we reflect on the historical and modern dynamics of these power relations. As autistic psychologists actively working with and diagnosing autistic clients, we end this paper with an autoethnographic interrogation of our own self-diagnostic journeys and ways in which we’ve integrated our identities across personal and professional spheres of functioning
Dangerous Disclosure: An Autoethnographic Account of My Autism Diagnosis and the Social Work Profession
Get PDFThe disclosing of an autism diagnosis presents particular challenge for autistic mothers, especially for those autistic mothers who are additionally advocating for their autistic children within public service provision. Research into autism and parental blame demonstrates how autistic mothers are disproportionately exposed to aspects of mother-blame.
Disclosure of an autism diagnosis for autistic mothers can therefore be understood as a complex decision-making process whereby managing autistic identity and understanding autistic self are impacted by the additional need to manage the perceptions of others and associated stigma. The decision-making process is further influenced by the tangible consequences of mother-blame (child removal) which raises questions around how much autonomy and free will autistic mothers hold with regards to exercising choice in diagnostic disclosure.
This paper presents the experiences of one autistic mother (the author), examining her disclosure to children’s social work practitioners and the subsequent social work consideration of parenting capability