Stress and Coping in Autism
ISBN13: 9780195182262ISBN10: 019518226X
Hardback,
472 pages
Aug 2006,
In Stock
Price:
$55.00 (05)Description
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.The authors explore how stress contributes to the physiological, psychological, and overt behavioral manifestations of autism. Narratives by individuals with autism, family members, clinicians, and a musician help the reader to understand in a rich and unique way the role and impact stress can have in the life of people living with autism and also highlight creative coping strategies over a lifetime. Clinicians and educators offer a range of intervention and instructional strategies to reduce stress and to prevent or alleviate anxiety and other disruptive responses inherent in autism. This volume's biological, psychological and social perspectives on stress and autism reflect many modes of inquiry and types of information. Stress, Coping and Autism will be of great help to mental health professionals, researchers and caregivers alike.
Features
- -Despite an increasing body of knowledge and publications on both stress and autism, there is really no other book that focuses solely on the relationship of both.
- -Contributions by researchers, clinicians, teachers and persons living with autism illustrate how stress influences the lives of persons with autism.
- -Outlines ways in which stress contributes to the physiological, psychological and overt behavioral manifestations of autism.
- -Provides practical strategies for buffering the effects of stress for persons with autism and their families.
- -First-person accounts and personal narratives by those suffering from autism help readers to understand the rich and unique way the role and impact of stress in the life of people living with autism and highlight creative coping strategies over a lifetime.
Product Details
472 pages; 5 halftones, 15 line illus.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-518226-2ISBN10: 0-19-518226-XAbout the Author(s)
M. Grace Baron, Professor of Psychology, Wheaton College , June Groden, Clinical Faculty, University of Rhode Island , Gerald Groden, Clinical Faculty, University of Rhode Island , and Lewis P. Lipsitt, Professor of Psychology, Brown University (Emeritus)
