Stress and Coping in Autism

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ISBN: 9780195182262

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This important volume provides a theoretical framework for the usefulness of the stress construct in understanding and treating autism. Contributions by researchers, clinicians, teachers and persons living with autism illustrate how stress influences the lives of persons with autism; how those touched by autism cope with stress; and how clinicians, teachers and caregivers can reduce the impact of stress in autism, experience of stress in autism, and daily-life strategies for thereduction of stress in autism. Narratives by individuals with autism, family members, clinicians, and a historian help to understand in a rich and unique way in which the role and impact of stress in the life of people living with autism. First-person accounts also highlight creative coping strategies over a lifetime. This volumes biological, psychological and social perspectives on stress and autism reflect many modes of inquiry and types of information. Stress and Autism will be of great help to both mental healthprofessionals and caregivers alike.

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Brand OUP USA

Reference 85302

EAN13 9780195182262

ISBN 9780195182262

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Publication date: 2006
Issue number: 1
Cover: hard cover
Pages count: 472
Dimensions (mm): 167 x 241
Weight (g): 819

Introduction; I Foundations in Stress, Coping and Autism; Assessment & Coping Strategies; Scientific Foundations for Research and Practice; II The Experience of Stress in Autism; Stopping the Constant Stress:: A Personal Account; Living with Autism:: A Collaboration; Blind Tom:: A Celebrated Slave Pianist Coping with the Stress of Autism; III Emerging Pathways for the Study of Stress, Coping, and Autism; Is Autism A Stress Disorder? What Studies of Nonautistic Populations Can Tell Us; Autism and the Physiology of Stress and Anxiety; I Cant Get Started:: Stress and the Role of Movement Differences in People with Autism; Therapist Insights in Working with Stress in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder; IV Strategies for Coping with Stress; Stress and Coping Among Family Members of Individuals with Autism; Communication and Stress in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders; Understanding the Role of Stress in Autism:: The Key to Teaching for Independence; Aspergers Syndrome and Problems Related to Stress; The Experience of Bereavement for Those with Developmental Disabilities; Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder;