Recognising Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: A Practical Guide to Adult Diagnosis and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780367427610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 262 str.

Trevor Powell

Opis

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 AS with whom the author has worked with clinically.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.