Autistic Spectrum Disorders
The Psychology of Music and Autism: Hearing, Feeling, Thinking, Doing
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This book considers the cognitive, behavioural and socio-emotional aspects of autism in relation to music perception, musical engagement and music production
This title is due to be published on the 15th January 2025. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.
Neurodiversity-Affirming Psychotherapy: Clinical Pathways to Autistic Mental Health
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Neurodiversity-Affirming Psychotherapy: Clinical Pathways to Autistic Mental Health provides an attachment-based framework within which clinicians can support autistic/neurodivergent clients to benefit from effective, trauma-informed psychotherapy.
Improving Mental Health Therapies for Autistic Children and Young People: Promoting Self-agency, Curiosity and Collaboration
Our Price: $27.61 (with free UK delivery)
This unique, collaborative book, featuring contributions from autistic and non-autistic experts, presents cutting-edge thinking on mental health and service transformation in relation to autistic children and young people (CYP) and their families.
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Exploring Autistic Sexualities, Relationality, and Genders : Living Under a Double Rainbow
Our Price: $42.67 (with free UK delivery)
The book is primarily intended for postgraduate students and academics across disciplines including sociology, social work, psychology, disability studies, inclusive and special education, and sexual education. Mental health professionals and educators will also find it a useful resource to support their Autistic clients as well as developing their own understanding about how to support Autistic people in a neurodiversity-affirming, kink-affirming, LGBTQ+, and gender-variant way.
Autism in Polyvagal Terms: New Possibilities and Interventions
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By presenting the autism diagnosis through the lens of a disordered nervous system—that is, by applying Polyvagal Theory—this book opens new avenues for intervention and treatment, while challenging age-old assumptions of what autism means and how it presents itself.
Supporting Neurodivergent Children and Families: A Practitioner’s Guide
Our Price: $32.63 (with free UK delivery)
Supporting Neurodivergent Children and Families presents an innovative blueprint using academic literature, research and theory, to provide a best practice approach in equipping practitioners to support neurodivergent children and their families.
Autism Missed and Misdiagnosed: Identifying, Understanding and Supporting Diverse Autistic Identities
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This comprehensive resource will help multidisciplinary professions to understand, contextualise, and better identify diverse autistic presentations.
Play Interventions for Neurodivergent Children and Adolescents: Promoting Growth, Empowerment, and Affirming Practices
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This revamped second edition provides several play interventions designed to address a variety of common mental health needs that neurodivergent children face, such as social navigation, regulation, relationship development, anxiety issues, identity struggles, and self-advocacy.
Neurodiverse Couple Therapy: A Practical Guide to Brain-Informed Care
Our Price: $35.14 (with free UK delivery)
This book aims to implement a paradigm shift in the field and is essential reading for therapy students. It is invaluable reading for practicing therapists that did not receive training on working with neurodiverse clients.
A Different Way to Learn: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education
Our Price: $18.52 (with free UK delivery)
This comprehensive overview of self-directed learning is packed with ideas on how to implement it at home and includes interviews from parents of neurodivergent children on how you can make learning differently work for you and your child. Visit Dr Fisher’s own website for details of her excellent courses and webinars – https://www.naomifisher.co.uk/
Is This Autism?: A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else
Our Price: $32.33 (with free UK delivery)
Though our understanding of autism has greatly expanded, many autistic individuals are still missed or misdiagnosed. This highly accessible book clarifies many ways that autism can present, particularly in people who camouflage to hide their autistic traits.
Understanding Autistic Relationships Across the Lifespan: Family, Friends, Lovers and Others
Our Price: $32.63 (with free UK delivery)
Understanding Autistic Relationship Across the Lifespan is an accessible overview of autistic relationships from the early years through to old age. This much-needed book combines the latest research findings with first-hand accounts to offer insight into the relationships of autistic people and how they differ to those of non-autistic people in a range of ways.
The Pocket Guide to Neurodiversity
Our Price: $15.00 (with free UK delivery)
Busting common misconceptions and setting out simple tips and guidance for supporting the neurodivergent people around you, whether among your family, friends or at your school, college or workplace – or if you yourself are ND and want to improve the understanding of others – this essential guide will help us all celebrate neurodiversity and foster more inclusive communities.
Special Interests in Art Therapy with Autistic People: A Neurodiversity-Positive Approach to Empower and Engage Participants
Our Price: $31.37 (with free UK delivery)
Introducing the Special Interest Communication Theory (SICT) Facilitative Framework, this guide will help you to support autistic clients and meet their needs through special interests and pop culture.
Understanding and Treating Sleep Disturbances in Autism: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Our Price: $28.25 (with free UK delivery)
This is the cutting edge resource for professionals and academics seeking further insight into sleep disturbances and autism, exploring contemporary research and setting the groundwork for the most effective methods of treatment for individuals of all ages.
The Rise of Autism: Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis
Our Price: $45.18 (with free UK delivery)
This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism since the 1990s. Providing an engaging account of competing and widely debated explanations, it investigates how these have led to differing interpretations of the same data. Crucially, the author argues that the increased use of autism diagnosis is due to medicalisation across the life course, whilst holding open the possibility that the rise may also be partly accounted for by modern-day environmental exposures, again, across the life course.
Art as a Language for Autism: Building Effective Therapeutic Relationships with Children and Adolescents
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Art as a Language for Autism addresses the clinical challenges that are common in working with autistic spectrum disorder by exploring how artistic expression can provide a communicative language for younger clients who are set in their thought processes and preferences.
Communication Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Second Edition: Do we speak the same language?
Our Price: $30.12 (with free UK delivery)
In this updated edition, Olga Bogdashina provides a theoretical foundation for understanding communication and language impairments specific to autism. She explores the effects of different perceptual and cognitive styles on the communication and language development of autistic children. She also stresses the importance of identifying each individual’s nonverbal language – which can be visual, tactile, kinaesthetic, auditory, olfactory or gustatory – to establish verbal communication.
Psychological Therapies for Adults with Autism
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Of the millions of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), adults represent the fastest growing segment of the population. Unfortunately, clinical research has not kept up with the population surge, leaving insufficient guidance for proper support and treatment for adults who have ASD.
Helping Autistic Teens to Manage their Anxiety: Strategies and Worksheets using CBT, DBT, and ACT Skills
Our Price: $25.09 (with free UK delivery)
Drawing on the author’s extensive clinical and research experience, this book presents practical strategies purposefully developed for parents, therapists and teachers working with autistic adolescents experiencing anxiety. In addition, it features chapters dedicated to assisting parents in supporting their anxious child.
Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Criminal Justice System: A Guide to Understanding Suspects, Defendants and Offenders with Autism
Our Price: $40.16 (with free UK delivery)
This book focuses on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the criminal justice system. Rather than being the perpetrators of offending, individuals with ASD are more likely to be the victim of crime. However, there is nevertheless a small subset of individuals with ASD who do offend, and this book provides an in-depth understanding of how certain features of ASD may provide the context of vulnerability to engaging in a number of types of offending behaviours.
The JASPER Model for Children with Autism: Promoting Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation
Our Price: $62.76 (with free UK delivery)
This full-color, clinician-friendly manual is the authoritative guide to implementing the Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation (JASPER) intervention.
From Hurt to Hope: Stories of mental health, mental illness and being autistic
Our Price: $18.82 (with free UK delivery)
The essays are structured along the topics of hurt (personal experiences and how they shaped the contributor), help (the tools and tips which have helped on their personal journeys), and hope (looking forward to the future). At times touching, humorous, and also enraging, this book offers a frank and honest depiction of the challenges autistic people face and the knock-on effect on their mental health. A challenge to change how our society treats and values one another.
Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets For Helping Kids on the Spectrum
Our Price: $15.69 (with free UK delivery)
International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum.