The Relationship Between Social Camouflaging in Autism and Safety Behaviours in Social Anxiety

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.26383
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Jiedi Lei discusses her JCPP paper ‘Understanding the relationship between social camouflaging in autism and safety behaviours in social anxiety in autistic and non-autistic adolescents’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13884). Jiedi is the first author of the paper.
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:

• The definition of ‘social camouflaging’ and ‘masking’, how it typically manifests, and how it relates to social anxiety in autistic adolescents.
• Safety behaviours in social anxiety in autistic and non-autistic adolescents.
• How participants were recruited and engaged using cartoon-like stop-motion videos.
• Gender differences that emerged.
• Implications of the findings for CAMH professionals and how the findings could inform assessment and treatment of social anxiety disorder for autistic adolescents.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.