Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a chronic neuro-developmental disorder that affects the way a person relates to the environment and the people around. The person's capacity to build relationships with others is impaired and so is his/her ability to comprehend others' feelings, too. People with ASD manifest the classical triad of impairments (Wing, 1988) in socialization, communication, and imagination, which includes cognitive and behavioral inflexibility, and hence, affects the way they process information and view the world (Jordan, 1997). The main focus of this monograph is imagination...

In children's projective drawings, scribbles, doodles, random markings and iconographs (i.e., images or symbols) are used to represent a subject, theme or meaning of subconscious and/or unconscious thoughts and emotions not explicitly expressed. This is a special dictionary for those working with children and adolescents (and to some extent, adults, too) through their projective drawings to understand what is in their hidden minds. There are two main types of meanings that can be found and deciphered or interpreted from these projective drawings. The first type is the archetypal meanings,...

This monograph traces the historical roots of Case Management System (CMS) in Educational Therapy (EdTx) and explores 10 selected models, in order to understand the system with its practical application through the CCAS model of human behavioral potentials. Within the CCAS framework, the Cognitive Hypothesis Testing emerges as a pivotal tool for CMS. The Triple-D model is introduced as an alternative CMS to the APIE model for EdTx with the aim to enhance its efficacy through the application of Learning Activity System. Within the broader context of the Ecological Systems Theory, where the...