Recognising Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

A Practical Guide to Adult Diagnosis and Beyond
2. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-42761-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 304 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 720 g

Recognising Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome is an accessible guide, offering information and guidance, self-help and coping strategies and illustrated throughout with personal quotes, vignettes and anecdotes from clients with autism with whom the author has worked clinically.

The book captures the individual stories, quotations and experiences, observed in adult autism diagnostic services, woven in with contemporary research, theory and clinical insights. It outlines the history of the condition and the present criteria for obtaining a diagnosis. With exercises, tips, questionnaires, psycho-educational work and advice sheets, this new edition also elucidates the female presentation of autism that has attained significance in the recent times.

The book is deliberately aimed at a broad audience of people: those who have just received a diagnosis and want to know more, those who are considering seeking a diagnosis, family members, relatives, friends and clinicians, including mental health workers, psychologists, support workers and all those who work with autistic people.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powell, Trevor

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Medizinische Diagnose und Diagnostik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik Hochbegabtenförderung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Autismus und Asperger-Syndrom
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Considering a diagnosis of Autism; Chapter 2 Theory and facts about autism; Chapter 3 The Diagnostic Assessment; Chapter 4 Diagnosis - in my own words; Chapter 5 Processing information: cognition, language and sensory issues; Chapter 6 Emotions and the social and relational world; Chapter 7 Mental health and related issues; Chapter 8 Work; Chapter 9 After diagnosis: reactions, disclosure, stages and advice

Über Autor(innen)

Trevor Powell is an experienced clinical psychologist and author, who has spent the last 40 years, mainly working in the NHS, in the fields of mental health, neuropsychology and more recently, with adults with autism/Asperger’s syndrome. His previous books include The Mental Health Handbook and The Brain Injury Workbook.