A Parents' ABC of the Autism Spectrum (eBook)

Stephen Heydt (Autor)

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2016
224 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
9781784504359 (ISBN)

Infos

This new user-friendly handbook, designed to support parents whose children have diagnosed with ASD, provides answers on a range of topics in brief articles arranged into alphabetical categories.

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Covering everything from Anxiety to Fragile-X Syndrome, Stephen Heydt provides an alphabetical categorisation of the possible issues a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may encounter.Written by an experienced clinical psychologist, this book offers information for parents whose children have been diagnosed with ASD, and is presented in an easy-to-use A to Z format. In a return to core understandings of ASD, the author translates difficult behavioural issues into practical information and strategies. Designed for parents and carers in a methodical order, A Parent's ABC of the Autism Spectrum will help explain the challenges of living with childhood ASD.

Autor

Stephen Heydt has worked as a clinical psychologist since 1981 specialising in experiences of trauma as well as behavioural and cognitive difficulties. Having worked in conflict and post-conflict contexts, Stephen has also directed mental health services for 1.5 million refugees, some 140 mother and child health centres, covering six countries and some forty refugee camps for the United Nations. He now runs Healthy Minds, a specialist clinical practice in Brisbane, Australia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.12.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Schlagworte: ADHD • Anxiety • Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) • Asperger's Syndrome • Autism • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) • body dysmorphia • bolting • Bullying • challenging behaviour • comorbidity • conceptual blindness • Deductive Reasoning • Depression • Diagnosis • Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention (EIBI) • Early Intervention • echolalia • Encopresis • Enuresis • Exposure and Response Prevention • faecal smearing • gender dysphoria • IQ assessment • Meltdown • Memory • motor skills • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) • PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) • Perfectionism • perseverative behaviours • prosopagnosia • reading difficulties • repetitive behaviours • School refusal • Selective Mutism • Self-Harm • Sensory sensitivities • social learning • social skills development • stimming • Theory of Mind • Tic Disorders • toileting • Token Reward Systems • Tourette's syndrome • writing difficulties
• ISBN-13: 9781784504359 / 9781784504359