Annabelle Mournet is a graduate student in clinical psychology at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.
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Annabelle Mournet
Graduate student
Rutgers University
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People who need people: Leveraging desire for connection to address suicide in autism
There are a variety of suicide interventions designed to improve social connection that could be adapted for autistic people, but first the field must work to dismantle the damaging and inaccurate notion that autistic people are uninterested in social interaction.
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People who need people: Leveraging desire for connection to address suicide in autism
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