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Beautifully illustrated guide helps young people with PDA to understand their diagnosis...
Beautifully illustrated picture book that helps parents to explain an autism diagnosis ...
Dr Glòria Durà-Vilà, MD, MRCPsych, MSc, PhD is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Medical Lead for the ASD Pathway in Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust. She is visiting lecturer at University College London and and Queen Mary University of London. She was previously Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London for four years. She is a member of the executive committees of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Special Interest Groups: Transcultural Psychiatry, and Spirituality and Psychiatry. Gloria also offers bespoke private assessments and consultations, specialising in Autism Spectrum Disorder including Pathological Demand Avoidance and ASD in complex presentations.
Gloria studied medicine in Valencia, Spain, and was trained in psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at St Mary’s Hospital in London. Her research interests focus on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology including culture, spirituality and mental health, the medicalisation of sadness, cultural understanding of sadness and depression, idioms and narratives of distress, and cultural variation in attitudes to young people consenting to health interventions.
She has authored three books for Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
