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Stress and Coping in Autism

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ISBN-10: 019518226X

ISBN-13: 9780195182262

Edition: 2006

Authors: M. Grace Baron, June Groden, Gerald Groden, Lewis P. Lipsitt, Lewis P. Lipsitt

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/13/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 472
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.30" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

June Groden is the director of the Groden Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Ayelet Kantor is an associate director at the Groden Center. Cooper R. Woodard is clinical director at the Groden Center. Lewis P. Lipsitt is professor emeritus of psychology, medical science and human development at Brown University.

Clyde Hertzman, MD, FRCPC, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Contributors
Introduction
Foundations in Stress, Coping, and Autism
Assessment and Coping Strategies
Scientific Foundations for Research and Practice
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
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 Can't 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
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
Asperger's 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
Index