Please sign this new petition, to help the autism community in France

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Please sign this petition, to help the autism community in France:

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Manifest for Good Clinical Practice in Autism

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We, child, adolescent and adult psychiatrists and associated professionals, wish

to assert that in France there are psychiatrists who base their practice on

evidence-based guidelines.

We, professionals with practical experience with patients and their families,

assert that:

• Our practice aims at providing the best services to our patients, by relieving

suffering, compensating handicap and improving quality of life with respect for

individual differences;

• Our practice tries to be well-argued: while considering individual needs and

specificities of each patient, it is based on good medical practice guidelines,

taking into account the most rigorous available scientific knowledge; practices

incompatible with ethics or scientific state-of-knowledge are rejected.

• Our clinical practice is a partnership with the patients and their family ; we

provide them with the most complete information on available diagnostic and

therapeutic strategies and we discuss with them the diagnosis, the choice of

therapeutical procedures as well as their evaluation ;

• Our medical practice is coordinated with other professionals to help the

patient fully take his/her place in his/her social, familial, school or

professional environment.

Regarding autism and other pervasive developmental disorders, we fully subscribe

to the principles of the Declaration of Venice, established by the International

Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Associated Professions. This

declaration endorses : the need of early diagnosis, as well as early and

lifelong treatment as needed ; the use of safe and validated procédures ; the

principle of a collaboration among professionals, autistic persons and their

families ; scientific research as the way of developing knowledge ; and the need

for professionals' training and standards for clinical care. Governments are

prompted to establish politics in favour of people with developmental disorders.

It also points out current intervention principles in autism (complete document

in annexe).

We are currently particularly minful of the work of the French Health High

Authority (« Haute Autorité de Santé ») and we look forward to its forthcoming

guidelines as a mean to garantee a management of individuals with autism in line

with ethical requirements and current scientific state of knowledge.