Aherne, D (2023). The pocket Guide to Neurodiversity. Jessica kingsley Publishers.
Description of the text
In this simple guide, expert speaker and trainer Daniel Aherne provides a clear introduction to neurodiversity and the four most common Neurodivergent identities of Autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia
Available at:
https://uk.jkp.com/products/the-pocket-guide-to-neurodiversity
Aldred and Aldred (2023). Embodied Education Creating Safe Space for Learning, Facilitating and Sharing.
Description of the text
The aim of Embodied Education “is to support a shift in culture, towards an embodied, holistic model of teaching and learning , by raising awareness, sparking curiosity and suggesting alternatives and solutions”. The book shares strategies for and reflections on creating safe spaces for learning, facilitating and sharing.
Available at:
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Embodied_Education_Creating_Safe_Space_f/JIUn0AEACAAJ?hl=en
Ann Memmott (Editor), Jill Corbyn (Editor), Gemma Williams (Editor) and Kirsten Newton (2019). “It’s Not Rocket Science”: Considering and meeting the sensory needs of Autistic children and young people in CAMHS inpatient services.
Description of the text
Report from The University of Brighton and The National Development Team for Inclusion which considers the sensory needs of Autistic children and young people in CAMHS inpatient services – and how to meet them.
Available at:
https://www.ndti.org.uk/assets/files/Its-not-rocket-science-V6.pdf
Burton, S., L. Regan, and L. Kelly 1998 Supporting Women and Challenging Men. Lessons from the Domestic Violence Intervention Project. Bristol: Policy Press.
Description of the text
This study evaluated the Domestic Violence Intervention Project (DVIP) based in West London.
Available at:
https://cwasu.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/SupportingwomenChallengingmen.pdf
Clinks (2025). Working with Neurodivergent people in contact with the criminal justice system.
Description of the text
Evidence review on neurodivergence in the justice system, considering the following aspects:
- Embedding lived experience in the development of policy and practice.
- The Youth Justice System (YJS) and Neurodivergent Children and Young People (ND-CYP).
- Neurodivergent suspects and Policing (including custody
- Neurodivergence in Criminal Courts.
- Prison and Probation based Behavioural Change Programmes for Neurodivergent Individuals.
- Getting started: How organisations can make their service more friendly to Neurodivergent people.
The Clinks webpage also has a freely accessible video recording where experts, including Dr Renehan (author of this guide), discuss the latest evidence on working with Neurodivergent individuals in the criminal justice system.
Available at:
https://www.clinks.org/publication/working-Neurodivergent-people-contact-criminal-justice-system
To access the website and video recording:
https://www.clinks.org/publication/working-Neurodivergent-people-contact-criminal-justice-system
Corbyn, J. and Aldred, K. (2025) ‘Beyond mind: the embodied double empathy problem’.
Description of the text
Current approaches to care, particularly in institutional settings, still lean heavily on mind-first, top-down models, including verbal communication, cognitive behavioural therapies, and compliance-focused strategies. These approaches often lack effectiveness for those whose distress is rooted in dysregulation and disconnection from their bodies. One of the chapter’s most powerful takeaways is the idea that dysregulation is an automatic and adaptive nervous system survival response to a threat in the environment, not dysfunction; it’s an unmet need. When understood through this lens, actions like stimming, shutdowns, or meltdowns are not behaviours to manage but signals of distress to be interpreted with compassion.
The book and chapter can be accessed her
https://pavpub.com/health-and-social-care/health-Autism/the-double-empathy-reader
For a free summary, see here
https://ndconnection.co.uk/blog/beyond-mind-embodied
Crenshaw, Kimberle (1989) “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 1989, Article 8.
Description of the text
An article that explores the importance of considering multiple and intersecting identities, structural harms and discrimination.
Available at:
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1989/iss1/8
Doherty et al (2023). Autistic SPACE: a novel framework for meeting the needs of Autistic people in healthcare setting.
Description of the text
Journal article introducing the SPACE Framework and explaining how it has been used in healthcare settings.
Available at:
https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10.12968/hmed.2023.0006
Dwyer et al (2025). Neurodiversity Movement Identification and Perceived Appropriateness of Terms Used to Describe Autism.
Description of the text
Journal article exploring neurodiversity language and terminology from a mixture of Neurodivergent and neurotypical participants.
Available at:
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/aut.2024.0297?journalCode=aut
Eisenstadt, N., Morgan, K., Newman, C., Iwi, K., Päivinen, H., and Cramer, H. (2025). Are you sitting comfortably? Discomfort as pedagogical strategy with perpetrators of domestic abuse. Journal of Gender-Based Violence (published online ahead of print 2025).
Description of the text
A journal article looking at the role of discomfort in DAPPs.
Milton, D. E. M. (2012). On the ontological status of Autism: The ‘double empathy problem’. Disability & Society, 27(6), 883-887.
Description of the text
Journal article by Autistic academic Damion Milton on his theory of The Double Empathy Problem.
Available at:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2012.710008
Milton (ed) (2025). The Double Empathy Reader. Pavillion Publishing.
Description of the text
Book that ‘brings together a substantial collection of work from leading researchers, theorists and practitioners, with first-hand accounts from Neurodivergent people, to explore this growing area of study within the neurodiversity movement’.
Available at:
https://pavpub.com/health-and-social-care/health-Autism/the-double-empathy-reader
National Autistic Taskforce (2019). An independent guide to quality care for Autistic people.
Description of the text
Report from the National Autism Taskforce (NAT) on quality care for Autistic people. The NAT is an Autistic led and run organisation.
Available at:
https://nationalAutistictaskforce.org.uk/an-independent-guide-to-quality-care-for-Autistic-people/#intro
Renehan, N. (2026). Towards Neurodiversity-Affirmative Provision Within Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programs…
Description of the text
This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with Neurodivergent and neurotypical domestic abuse perpetrator program practitioners from Australia, the Netherlands, the United States and the United Kingdom who had adapted how they worked to be more inclusive of Autistic men and those with lived experience of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It explores DAPP practitioners’ understandings of Neurodivergent (Autistic and ADHD) men’s violence, coercion and control towards their partners, and how DAPP practitioners had adapted their practice to make it more inclusive of Neurodivergent men.
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260526141948
Renehan, N., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2022). Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes and Neurodiversity.
Description of the text
Report on domestic violence perpetrator programmes and neurodivergence, sharing practitioner perspectives and recommendations.
Available at:
https://collections.durham.ac.uk/downloads/r2hx11xf281
Renehan, N. (2024a). Designing from the margins Neurodivergent-led Organisations on Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programmes.
Description of the text
This report shares findings from a research project that ‘draws on the accounts of representatives of Neurodivergent-led organisations in the United Kingdom, and details their perspectives about how domestic abuse perpetrator programmes could be developed and delivered to be more neuroinclusive’.
Available at:
https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3333329
Renehan, N. (2024b). Foregrounding Meaning and Motive…
Description of the text
Journal article exploring meaning and motive in the domestic abuse perpetration of Neurodivergent men. ‘Drawing on the lives of three, non-learning disabled, Neurodivergent men, this article reveals that neurodivergence does not cause domestic abuse, as meaning and motive was still discernible in their use of and relevant in the response to their violence and abuse’.
Available at:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01639625.2024.2319638#abstract
Renehan, N. and Gadd, D. (2024) For Better or Worse?…
Description of the text
In this journal article, findings from an ethnographic study of the Building Better Relationships programme are situated within the Probation Inspectorate’s recent inspection of domestic abuse work within the newly unified Probation Service. Findings revealed a fractured and overstretched workforce. The central argument is that if we are to avoid making matters worse, practitioners must be equipped with the time, supervision and skill needed to maintain something akin to a ‘therapeutic alliance’, that will endure in moments of crisis in their own lives as well as those of their clients.
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae003
The Love Practice
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‘Here Are 5 Ways Therapy Can Be Made Better for Autistic Folks’
Blog/resource from a Black Autistic therapist exploring how practice can be more responsive to Autistic people in therapy. There are tools and ideas about how to work with people with Alexithymia.
Available at:
https://thelovepractice.substack.com/p/here-are-5-ways-therapy-can-be-made?r=jtli9&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
Westgarth, D. Why a neurodiversity diagnosis matters. BDJ In Practice 37, 284–285 (2024).
Description of the text
Journal article exploring current estimates of neurodivergence within the general population and the importance of neurodivergence diagnosis.
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41404-024-2813-8