ArticleFrontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry2026
Redefining autism in adulthood interventions
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- From Participants to Community Partners: A Novel Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Approach to Autistic-Led Inquiry in Digital and Virtual Environments.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Background: Autism intervention research has largely prioritized children and adolescents, with limited guidance for adults. Social virtual environments (SVEs; e.g., VRChat) are widely used by autistic adults for connection, yet their role as intervention settings remains under-examined. This study explores clinicians' perspectives on feasibility, risks, and essential design requirements for clinician-informed SVE-based socio-relational interventions for autistic young adults with low support needs. Methods: We conducted nine semi-structured focus groups with Italian clinicians ( Results: Italian clinicians emphasized neurodiversity-affirming aims, context-dependent social difficulty (including anxiety/overwhelm), structured scaffolding and mediation, ecological generalization, and SVEs as conditional tools requiring boundaries. International clinicians foregrounded autonomy and choice, emotional safety in relation to masking, neurotype composition as an ingredient for belonging, identity-affirming collaboration, and regulation/repair practices. Across datasets, clinicians emphasized safety-contingent participation, non-negotiable personalization/controllability of demands (i.e., sensory, social), and the protective value of supported pauses and exits. Contextual differences centered on the dominant logic of support (competence-building scaffolding vs. liberation/identity integration), mediator-led structure vs. neurotype-aligned spaces, intersectionality as primary vs. contextual framing, and distinct risk emphases (avoidance/overuse vs. relational ambiguity and rejection). Conclusion: Clinicians conceptualize SVEs not as inherently therapeutic technologies but as conditional social infrastructures whose potential value depends on how safety, autonomy, and identity are supported. Clinician-informed SVE-based interventions for autistic adults may therefore require integrating structured mediation with explicit autonomy- and identity-affirming safeguards, offering a pathway beyond the traditional' skills vs. acceptance' divide in autism intervention research.
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