Description
| Product ID: | 9781785924200 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Working with Girls and Young Women with an Autism Spectrum Condition |
| Subtitle: | A Practical Guide for Clinicians |
| Authors: | Author: Fiona Fisher Bullivant |
| Page Count: | 152 |
| Subjects: | Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & advice services, Psychology, Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, Clinical psychology, Psychiatric nursing / Mental health nursing, Psychology, Autism & Asperger’s Syndrome, Clinical psychology, Psychiatric nursing |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This concise, practical guide shows how to enable girls and young women with ASD to reach their full potential, by adopting more individualised approaches. Drawing on clinical experience and clients' testimonies, it covers diagnosis, comorbidities, sensory issues, self-harm, emotional regulation, assessments, interventions and strategies. This guide shows how clinicians can help girls and young women with ASC to reach their full potential, by adopting more relationship-based, individualised approaches. With contributions from young women about their experiences in clinical settings, the book reflects on what clinicians have done right and wrong to date, why girls and women with ASC are too often misunderstood, and how the culture of how clinicians work with them needs to change in order to achieve better results. In a concise and practical way, it covers how to better understand clients'' needs and foster strong relationships through diagnosis, understanding comorbidities, sensory issues, self-harm, emotional regulation, assessments, interventions and strategies. |
| Imprint Name: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Publisher Name: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-06-21 |