Anger Box

Sensory turmoil and pain in autism

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• Publisher: Pavilion
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781909810549
• Topic: Psychology
• Index: Psychology

In her new book, Phoebe Caldwell, an expert practitioner with over 30 years' experience working with people with learning disabilities, offers us a fresh insight into autism spectrum disorders. Shifting her attention away from presentation and symptoms alone, Phoebe explores and attempts to understand the sensory issues experienced by those on the spectrum and their neurobiological roots in an effort to find new ways of alleviating the distress that can characterise this condition.The book explores the relationship between pain and external stimuli, trigeminal neuralgia, visual distortions, sensory overload, environmental and neurological factors implicated in the development of ASD, and a wide range of other areas. Drawing upon her own wealth of experience, the experiences of people on the spectrum and new scientific research, Phoebe presents a fascinating and engaging exploration of life on the spectrum, richly textured, vibrant and above all informative.

Table of contents

• The Anger Box
• Imprint
• Contents
• Foreword
• Who is this book for?
• Chapter one: The Anger Box
• Chapter two: All in the mind?
• Chapter three: Processing problems
• Chapter four: Seeing straight
• Chapter five: Internal messages to the brain
• Chapter six: Fight, freeze or flight
• Chapter seven: Friends, lions and tortoises
• Chapter eight: A behavioural approach?
• Chapter nine: Living on the borders
• Chapter ten: One thing at a time
• Chapter eleven: Listening in
• Chapter twelve: Confirmation and sense of self
• Epilogue
• Catch up
• Appendix one: An inside out approach
• Appendix two: Intensive Interaction
• Appendix three: Sensory overload/ the autonomic storm
• Sensory problems: useful equipment
• Footnotes