Emerging Programs for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Improving Communication, Behavior, and Family Dynamics

Neophytos L. Papaneophytou, Undurti N. Das

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780323850315
• eBook ISBN: 9780323859776
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Clinical Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Emerging Programs for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Improving Communication, Behavior, and Family Dynamics brings forward a hybrid and a transdisciplinary methodology to identify methods used to diagnose, treat, and manage those with autism within personal and social constructs and values building exemplary international experiences from across the globe. Luminary experts offer their superb level of expertise through their research, experience, and clinical work. The book addresses all the aspects of care, lifespan, and lifestyle issues from treatment to living. It will emphasize issues related to neurodiversity, individuality, best practices, and support of people on the Autism Spectrum and their families. In addition, this book includes specific case studies, highlighting family experiences and the application of best practices by therapists thereof. - Provides a multidisciplinary approach of the diagnosis, management and treatment of autism spectrum disorders - Includes specific case studies highlighting family experiences - Emphasizes issues related to neurodiversity, individuality and improving quality of life

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• 1 : Stress experience and life for parents of autistic individuals: four case studies in focus
• 2 : Can bioactive lipids arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids prevent autism and reduce its severity?
• 3 : Is autism treatable?
• 4 : Classical child autism: can we prevent it?
• 5 : Methods to improve imitation in young children with autism: a review
• 6 : Disruption to embodiment in autism, and its repair
• 7 : Mind, body, space and time: the Neuro-Geometric approach a new roadmap to symbol formation
• 8 : Educational readiness for autism spectrum disorders: the integration of experience and development
• 9 : “Aggression” in young children on the autistic spectrum: the dysregulation–“aggression” hypothesis
• 10 : Good autism education is just good education
• 11 : Treatment of eating disorders of infants diagnosed with autism applying the Mifne method: a clinical case study
• 12 : Applied behavior analysis and verbal behavior interventions in children with autism spectrum disorder and associated learning difficulties
• 13 : Reconceptualizing training as professional formation in the fields of autism and infant mental health
• 14 : Parenting and autistic child
• 15 : Movements and development. Art-therapy approach in the complex rehabilitation of children with intellectual disorders, including autism spectrum disorder
• 16 : Robotics and autism: a review of current applications of robotics for autism spectrum disorder
• 17 : The importance of motor assessment, and current motor assessment tools available for individuals with autism spectrum disorder
• 18 : Autism and employment: challenges and strategies for a bright future
• 19 : Psychopharmacology of autism spectrum disorders and other related comorbidities
• 20 : Language habilitation through typing program for nonspeaking and minimally speaking people with autism: the Phaedrus Approach
• 21 : Full circle autism care includes family relationships and dynamics: practical application
• 22 : Rhythm, rooting, range, and repetition: elements of play that promote regulation and engagement
• 23 : Asperger syndrome and adolescent girl: understanding the rhythm of emotions towards the struggle with social relationships—cognitive-behavioral and narrative therapy
• 24 : Emotion regulation: a target for improving mental health in autism
• 25 : Autism Spectrum Disorder and child maltreatment: forensic considerations
• 26 : The use of scripts by children with autism spectrum disorder: a puzzle and an opportunity
• 27 : Transformed by the journey: building community with diverse fathers of people with autism
• 28 : A relationship-based integrative model of intervention for autism spectrum disorders
• 29 : From autistic teenager to adult in decision-making—a parent’s perspective
• 30 : Physical, sexual, and psychological child abuse of a 9-year-old autistic child
• 31 : Intersubjectivity through dyadic states of consciousness
• Index
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