Building Social Connections in Autism

Health, Happiness, and Community
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-97417-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

This edited work builds on contemporary empirical research concerning the central role social competence plays in wellbeing in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Connections in Autism begins with an introduction rooted in development and explores optimal developmental processes and those of individuals with ASD.

A creative mixture of contributions from basic researchers, psychoanalytic therapists, and individuals with autism who share their subjective experience and do research in the field provide for a unique perspective. It explores the adverse subjective outcomes of these processes in individuals with ASD and expands upon the importance of social connection and includes contributions focused on psychotherapeutic interventions to build social competency and caring connections.

Clinicians, researchers, trainees, and students will benefit from this text that covers the importance of social competency in individuals with ASD with psychotherapeutic technique and research.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singletary, William

Rice, Timothy

Lord, Catherine

Alvarez, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Autismus und Asperger-Syndrom
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Introduction  1.1. Optimal Developmental Processes and Those in the Autism Profile  Section 2: Loneliness’ Adverse Subjective Outcomes and Pathways to Repair  2.1. Overview of Loneliness’ Adverse Subjective Outcomes and Pathways to Repair 2.2. Loneliness Within and Beyond the Autism Profile 2.3. Loneliness as a Risk Factor for Suicide Among Autistic Individuals 2.4. Healthcare Delivery and the Autism Profile 2.5. Attachment Representations in the Face of Autism Spectrum Disorder 2.6. The Double Empathy Problem and Social Connections 2.7. The Emergent Way of Being: Autism, Adaptation, and Belonging 2.8. Introduction to Social Competency 2.9. Social Health and Autism: Pathways to Connection on the Spectrum  Section 3: Treatments that Build Caring Connections  3.1. Introduction to Treatments that Build Caring Connections 3.2. When an Autism Spectrum Profile is not Autism: Discovering Relational Intentionality 3.3. Families and Relationship-Based Development Across our Lifespan 3.4. Helping Toddlers at Risk of Autism to Communicate with their Parents: An Audited Case Series of a Psychoanalytically and Observationally Informed Intervention 3.5. Explicating the “Moving Along Process” 3.6. Females with Autism Profiles: Theoretical Perspectives on Developmental Variability 3.7. Could There be Meaning in Repetitive, Restrictive, even Stereotypic Behaviors? Evidence of the Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a 3-year-old boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder 3.8. Making Contact on the Spectrum 3.9. Sensory Sensitivity: Defensive Avoidance or Autistic Spectrum Disorder 3.10. Mentalization Based Therapy for Autistic Children: A Relational and Developmental Model 3.11. When Medication Has a Role: A Neurologist’s Perspective on Supporting — Not Changing — the Autistic Individual  Section Four: Conclusion  4.1. Concluding Reflections

Über Autor(innen)

William Singletary is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in practice in Philadelphia, PA.

Timothy Rice is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in practice in New York, NY and Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Catherine Lord is the George Tarjan Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA.

Anne Alvarez is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist and retired co-chair for the Autism Service at the Tavistock Clinic, London.