Understanding Autism and Autistic Functioning

A Guide for Parents, Educators and Professionals

LAURA VILLA, Luca Casartelli (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-56969-3 (ISBN)

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This concise volume offers an accessible overview on recent clinical and research perspectives addressing autism and autistic functioning. Offering an innovative lens, the book benefits from two different angles: a concrete and pragmatical view of an expert clinician with three decades of practice in diagnosis and treatment of autism, as well as a more “theoretic” and “long-term” view of a researcher that works on neural and computational architecture of (a)typical neurocognitive functioning.

Trying to understand autism beyond its behavioral symptoms, the book spans from clinical descriptions (e.g., communicating diagnosis; clinical intervention; prognosis) to recent neuroscientific evidence supporting a potential perspective-shift. The fil rouge of this volume can be summarized in three fundamental aspects that should orient any clinical practice in the context of autism (e.g., diagnosis; treatment; monitoring; etc.): we need an age-dependent, context-dependent, and functioning-dependent approach.

Understanding Autism and Autistic Functioning is a crucial reading for parents and caregivers, and professionals in health, education and social care.

Laura Villa is a medical doctor specialized in child neuropsychiatry at the University of Milan (Italy), and she is also a psychotherapist. She works at the Scientific Institute IRCCS MEDEA – Associazione “La Nostra Famiglia” (Italy) where she is the chief of the rehabilitative services for children with autism. Luca Casartelli is a researcher (PhD at the University of Geneva, Switzerland), head of the “Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience” Research Unit at the Scientific Institute IRCCS MEDEA. At present, he is also Adjunct Professor of developmental neuroscience (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy), and philosophy (University of Milan, Italy).

Introduction 1. Atypical preface 2. Autism Spectrum Disorder: insights from a neuroscientific perspective 3. Autism Spectrum Disorder: communicating diagnosis 4. Autism Spectrum Disorder: clinical intervention and treatment 5. Autism Spectrum Disorder: positive prognosis, optimal outcome, best feasible outcome, recovery

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Understanding Atypical Development
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
ISBN-10	0-367-56969-8 / 0367569698
ISBN-13	978-0-367-56969-3 / 9780367569693
Zustand	Neuware