Autism & Aspergers in Children & Adolescents

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The Thinking Heart

Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children

The Thinking Heart
  • By Anne Alvarez.

Published April 2012

How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach the unreachable child and interest the hardened child? The Thinking Heart is a natural sequel to Live…
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Play-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Play-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Edited by Loretta Gallo-Lopez, and Lawrence C. Rubin.

Published February 2012

Play-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders explores the most recognized, researched, and practical methods for using play therapy with the increasing number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs), and shows clincians how to integrate…
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Autism

Autism
  • By Stuart Murray.

Published September 2011

Autism is the first book on the condition that seeks to combine medical, historical and cultural approaches to an understanding of the condition. Its purpose is to present a rounded portrayal of the ways in which autism is currently represented in the world, It focuses on three broad areas: the…
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Nadia Revisited

A Longitudinal Study of an Autistic Savant

Nadia Revisited
  • By Lorna Selfe.

Published June 2011

This book re-examines the case of Nadia, discovered as a child aged six, who had been drawing with phenomenal skill and visual realism from the age of three, despite having autism and severe learning difficulties. The original research was published in 1977 and caused great international interest.…
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Social Skills for Teenagers with Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders

The PEERS Treatment Manual

Social Skills for Teenagers with Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • By Elizabeth A. Laugeson, and Fred Frankel.

Published May 2010

This book is essential reading for any clinician or researcher working with teens with autism spectrum disorders. This parent-assisted intervention for teens is based on a comprehensive, evidence-based, 14-week program at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, the manualization…
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Play and Engagement in Young Children with Autism

The Early Start Denver Manual

Play and Engagement in Young Children with Autism
  • By Sally J. Rogers, and Geraldine Dawson.

Published January 2010


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Defeating Autism

A Damaging Delusion

Defeating Autism
  • By Michael Fitzpatrick.

Published October 2008

Autism: disease, disorder or difference? What causes autism – genes or environment? Can biomedical treatments cure autism, and are they safe? An increased public awareness of autism has resulted in a rising trend of diagnoses, creating the impression of an ‘epidemic’. Many parents of children…
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Childhood Autism

A Clinician's Guide to Early Diagnosis and Integrated Treatment

Childhood Autism
  • By Jennifer Hillman, Stephen Snyder and James Neubrander.

Published February 2007

Childhood Autism provides clinicians with a comprehensive guide for working with autistic children and their families. It offers practical assistance with early diagnosis, cutting edge treatment options and goals, interdisciplinary insights, and available resources. Empirical research findings…
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Behavior Analysis Around the World

A Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology

Behavior Analysis Around the World
  • Edited by Rubén Ardila.

Published December 2006

Behaviour analysis has tradionally been one of the main areas and main approaches to psychology. It is based on laboratory research and in conceptualizations from distinguished figures of the discipline, such as Skinner, Pavlov, Mach, and even Watson and Thorndike. It has generated a science (the…
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