Authors: M. Grace Baron, Lewis P. Lipsitt, Gerald Groden, June Groden
ISBN-13: 9780195182262, ISBN-10: 019518226X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: June 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Wheaton College
University of Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island
Brown University (Emeritus)
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.
I | Foundations in stress, coping, and autism | 13 |
1 | Assessment and coping strategies | 15 |
2 | Scientific foundations for research and practice | 42 |
II | The experience of stress in autism | 69 |
3 | Stopping the constant stress : a personal account | 71 |
4 | Living with autism : a collaboration | 82 |
5 | Blind Tom : a celebrated slave pianist coping with the stress of autism | 96 |
III | Emerging pathways for the study of stress, coping, and autism | 127 |
6 | Is autism a stress disorder? : what studies of nonautistic populations can tell us | 129 |
7 | Autism and the physiology of stress and anxiety | 183 |
8 | I can't get started : stress and the role of movement differences in people with autism | 205 |
9 | Therapist insights in working with stress in people with autism spectrum disorder | 246 |
IV | Strategies for coping with stress | 275 |
10 | Stress and coping among family members of individuals with autism | 277 |
11 | Communication and stress in students with autism spectrum disorders | 302 |
12 | Understanding the role of stress in autism : the key to teaching for independence | 324 |
13 | Asperger's syndrome and problems related to stress | 351 |
14 | The experience of bereavement for those with developmental disabilities | 371 |
15 | Diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders in individuals with autism spectrum disorder | 388 |