Julia Charkey-Papp
Consultant Psychiatrist – Perth Clinic Medical Suites, Australia
Biography
Dr Charkey-Papp has been living and working in Perth, Western Australia, since 1991. She completed her basic medical training in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She trained as a Psychiatrist in Australia and worked across many settings as a General Adult, Adolescent and Developmental Psychiatrist. In 2001, she completed a theoretical dissertation on the subject of adolescent suicide, entitled ‘The Death of the Self’. She has been working in full-time private practice since 2004. Between 2005-2007, then from 2012 till 2015, Dr Charkey-Papp was the Medical Director of the Perth Clinic Adolescent and Young Adult Program, a service she had helped develop, arching over outpatient and inpatient settings. Thereafter, she has been focusing mostly on the assessment and management of youth and adults ‘on the spectrum’ of autism. Her current great interest lies in the detection of ASD traits in females, in the broader phenotype and in the concept of a ‘latent’ diagnosis. To date, she has assessed, diagnosed and treated over a thousand individuals on the spectrum of ASD.
Abstract
Abstract : Transition to adulthood in young people with autism – An Australian clinician’s perspective