"I ask them what autism means for them": a qualitative study of staff experiences of working with autistic women and birthing people in community perinatal mental health teams.

Another staff member described a client re-referred postnatally with severe depression after an antenatal referral was declined, as her original issue was framed mainly as autism-related: “she was probably suffering with quite significant anxiety, but because that label wasn’t stated, therefore, we didn’t accept [her]” (Practitioner 2).

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