{"id":598819,"date":"2026-04-12T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598819\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:15:13","slug":"psychiatrists-urged-to-prioritise-neurodivergence-in-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598819\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatrists urged to prioritise neurodivergence in care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is supporting a call to action from an editorial in the British Journal of Psychiatry, which highlights the importance of identifying conditions such as ADHD, autism and tic disorders in psychiatric populations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Hugo Critchley, a lead author of the editorial and professor of psychiatry at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), said: &#8220;This editorial challenges us as psychiatrists to recognise that neurodivergence is not peripheral to our work \u2013 it is central to it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Conditions like ADHD and autism are common across our caseloads but too often go unrecognised.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The authors argue that by improving awareness, upskilling the workforce and redesigning services, we can deliver more effective, personalised care and better outcomes for patients.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The editorial warns that without proper recognition, patients risk misdiagnosis, inappropriate care and greater chances of crisis or relapse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It calls for core psychiatric training to include neurodevelopmental conditions to improve diagnosis and treatment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Clinicians at Sussex Partnership have contributed to and backed the editorial.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their current work includes piloting an adult ADHD assessment service in primary care with clinical oversight from the Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is supporting a call to action from an editorial in the British Journal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-598819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}