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Volume 20 International Journal of Emergency Mental
Health and Human Resilience
ISSN: 1522-4821
Mental Health 2018
April 26-27, 2018
April 26-27, 2018 | Rome, Italy
4th International Conference on
Mental Health and Human Resilience
Capabilities-based interventions for autism spectrum disorders
Tahmineh Mousavi
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is one of the most common disabilities that increased over the last two decades. The
prevalence of ASD is between 1% and 2% for all racial groups. Different types of interventions for individuals with ASD
were recommended frommedical interventions to applied behavioral analysis, developmental and family-based interventions.
The interventions have different goals, including improving communication and social skills to training to support family
members. Individuals with ASD are more likely to experience failure in their basic capabilities, as described by Nussbaum
(2006), including living a normal life expectancy, being healthy, being able to move freely from place to place, being able
to experience self-expressive and creative activities, having attachments to people and things, being able to plan for one’s
life, being able to show concern for other human beings and engage in various forms of social life, being able to live with
concern for and in relation to the world of nature, being able to laugh, play, to enjoy recreational activities, being to participate
effectively in political choices that govern their lives; having the right to political participation and having the right to seek
employment on an equal basis with others. Individuals with ASD have needs in the areas covered by all the central human
functional capabilities. The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual model of capabilities-based interventions for
individuals with ASD.
Recent Publications
1. Mousavi T (2017) Central human functional capabilities of children with autism spectrum disorders: a qualitative
research. Mental Health in Family Medicine 13:495-501.
2. Nussbaum M (2000) Women and human development: the capabilities approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. ISBN-13 978-0-511-33743-7.
3. Martha C Nussbaum (2003) Capabilities as fundamental entitlements: Sen and Social Justice. Feminist Economics 9(2-
3):33-59.
4. Martha C Nussbaum (2006) Frontiers of justice: disability, nationality, species membership. Cambridge. MA: Harvard
University Press. ISBN 9780674024106.
Biography
Tahmineh Mousavi has joined Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy in the School of
Rehabilitation Sciences in February, 2017. Before joining to TUMS, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cognitive Science and Technology Council of Iran and a Visiting
Scholar at Centre for Relationship Based Care in the Department of Family Practice at University of British Columbia. She completed her PhD at University of British
Columbia in Rehabilitation Sciences. Her research interests include Disability Studies, Health Care Ethics, Health Policy, Global Health, Social Justice, Occupational
Therapy, Community Based Rehabilitation, Client Centered Practice, Mental Health, Autism Spectrum Disorders and Qualitative Research.
Tahmineh Mousavi, Int J Emerg Ment Health 2018, Volume 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C1-011