Navigating the Medical Maze with a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Navigating the Medical Maze with a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Author: Sue Ming,Beth Pletcher
Publsiher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-08-21
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780857008602

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This comprehensive guide enables parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to play an active and effective role in their child's medical care from diagnosis to early adulthood. With a focus on working with health care providers to ensure the best treatment for your child's unique needs, it includes: - a description of the developmental and medical conditions faced by children with ASDs in lay terms - an explanation of common diagnostic tests - a presentation of conventional and alternative therapies and how they work - tips for managing day-to-day medical or behavioral problems - advice for parents considering enrolling their child in a research project - and all the latest medical information. This authoritative and accessible book provides parents of children with an ASD with the foundation of knowledge they need to become an active partner in the medical care of their child and the map that will allow them to navigate the complex medical world.

Clinical Guide to Early Interventions for Children with Autism

Clinical Guide to Early Interventions for Children with Autism
Author: Giacomo Vivanti,Kristen Bottema-Beutel,Lauren Turner-Brown
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2020-08-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9783030411602

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This book examines early interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with the goal to enable primary care physicians as well as other clinicians, therapists, and practitioners to assist parents in making informed decisions based on current research. It provides a map for successfully navigating the maze of early interventions for ASD, focusing on evidence. Chapters review the similarities and differences between current evidence-based treatments, how these treatments work, the factors that facilitate their effectiveness, and the pros and cons of their use for different children and different needs. In addition, chapters discuss the services, laws, policies, and societal issues related to early intervention in ASD. Featured topics include: Criteria to evaluate evidence in ASD interventions. Effective approaches for Social communication difficulties in ASD. Effective approaches for Restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) in ASD. Naturalistic, developmental approaches to early intervention for children with ASD The TEACCH approach and other visually based approaches for children with ASD. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) approaches to early intervention for children with ASD. What works for whom in ASD early intervention Clinical Guide to Early Interventions for Children with Autism is an essential resource for clinicians, primary care providers, and other practitioners as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in the fields of child, school, and developmental psychology, pediatrics, social work, child and adolescent psychiatry, primary care medicine, and related disciplines.

Essential Clinical Guide to Understanding and Treating Autism

Essential Clinical Guide to Understanding and Treating Autism
Author: Fred R. Volkmar,Lisa A. Wiesner
Publsiher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781119427049

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Coauthored by the premier expert on autism in the United States and an experienced academic and practicing pediatrician, this volume provides concise and practical information based on the most up-to-date research and clinical experience for primary care givers around the world. Showing clinicians how to most effectively use evidence-based techniques, this invaluable guide offers primary-care providers access to expert, current research and practice guidelines allowing them to confidently support children who present with symptoms of autism.

Take Charge of Treatment for Your Child with Asperger s ASD

Take Charge of Treatment for Your Child with Asperger s  ASD
Author: Cornelia Pelzer Elwood,D. Scott McLeod
Publsiher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2015-12-21
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781784502072

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Equipping you with the knowledge and tools to become an effective case manager for your child, this book provides straightforward, practical instructions to create a comprehensive guide to your child's unique ASD profile. The individualized guide will: - Provide information about your child's unique profile for anyone who needs it - Serve as a toolbox and teaching template for your child's teachers and support team, with effective strategies to use with him or her - Be an instruction booklet for your child, helping him or her to thrive at home, school and in the community - Act as a case management road map to help you support your child and collaborate with teachers and service providers. The book includes checklists and worksheets, which can also be accessed online, so that you can easily create a personalized guide for your child with autism aged 5-14.

Proceeding International Conference on Biopsychosocial Issues

Proceeding  International Conference on Biopsychosocial Issues
Author: Monika Windriya Satyajati, S.Psi., M.Psi., Psi
Publsiher: SCU Knowledge Media
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2024
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9786237635109

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ICPSY 2018 (International Conference on Biopsychosocial Issues in 2018) an Inter-multidiciplinary Approach was held to achieve the vision of the faculty of Psychology: becoming an academic community of psychology that is beneficial to multicultural communities with a biopsychosocial approach based on Christian values: love, justice and honesty. It is a pleasure to present these Proceedings of the First International Seminar and Wokshop on Biopsycology, which will be of interest to all concerned with the scientific aspects of this area. This seminar was organised by the Faculty of Psychology University of Psychology and brought together key note speakers Dr. Augustina Sulastri (Indonesia), Prof. Rosnah Ismail (Malaysia), Dr. Evangeline Castronuevo-Ruga (Philipine) and Ms. Janet Boekhout (The Netherlands) and participants from 4 countries for the presentation of 24 papers.

What s Wrong with My Child

What   s Wrong with My Child
Author: Sandra Surace
Publsiher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2010-05-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781452010755

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At least six million American children have difficulties that are diagnosed as serious mental disorders, according to government surveys — a number that has tripled since the early 1990s. But there is little convincing evidence that the rates of illness have increased in the past few decades. Rather, many experts say it is the frequency of diagnosis that is going up, in part because doctors are more willing to attribute behavior problems to mental illness, and in part because the public is more aware of childhood mental disorders (NY Times, 2006). According to the US Attorney General, “Mental disorders are characterized by abnormalities in cognition, emotion or mood, or the highest integrative aspects of behavior, such as social interactions or planning of future activities.” The process of diagnosing these disorders comes with a great deal of controversy. Before a diagnosis is accepted the practitioner must be able to explain how the behaviors differ from normal developmental behaviors. In Hope’s case medical treatment would not be effective in reducing symptoms because her environment never changed. The sexual abuse never stopped and Hope was merely medicated into submission. Once the need for medications for such a young girl reached three the psychiatrist should have started asking other questions. However, since psychiatry categorizes the individual, once labeled, it stops questioning the diagnosis as being potentially ‘false’ and, thereby, confines treatment to the social standard of normal.

Healing Our Autistic Children

Healing Our Autistic Children
Author: Julie A. Buckley
Publsiher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010-01-05
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0230102247

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Every 20 minutes a child is diagnosed with a disease on the autism spectrum--including ADD, learning disabilities, Asperger's, Autism, and PDD--making it today's most common childhood disability. While the medical establishment treats autism as a psychiatric condition and prescribes behaviorally based therapies, Dr. Julie A. Buckley argues that it is a physiological disease that must be medically treated. Part personal story of her battle to heal her autistic daughter, part guide for parents, Healing Our Autistic Children explains simply and accessibly the new treatments and diets that have already proven effective for many families. Told through the case studies of her patients, the book is divided into four typical visits to Dr. Buckley's pediatric practice so that parents can see the progression of initial treatment. Written in a warmly engaging voice, parents new to the diagnosis will: - learn about clinical treatments that work - understand how different foods affect the body and how to begin implementing diets - learn to navigate the medical system and advocate for their child - bridge the communication gap with their pediatrician - discover that recovery is possible

Theology and the Experience of Disability

Theology and the Experience of Disability
Author: Andrew Picard,Myk Habets
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2016-04-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781317011132

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The Christian gospel compels humanity to embrace deeper ways of being human together that will overcome false divisions and exclusions in search of flourishing and graced communities. Presenting both short narratives emerging out of theological reflection on experience and analytical essays arising from engagement in scholarly conversations Theology and the Experience of Disability is a conscious attempt to develop theology by and with people with disabilities instead of theology about people with disabilities. A mixture of academic, professional, practical, and/or lived experience is brought to the topic in search of constructive multi-disciplinary proposals for church and society. The result is an interdisciplinary engagement with the constructive possibilities that emerge from a distinctly Christian understanding of disability as lived experience.