Recognising Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome: A Practical Guide to Adult Diagnosis and Beyond - Softcover

Powell, Trevor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367427613 ISBN 13: 9780367427610

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Recognising Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome is an accessible guide, offering information and guidance, self-help and coping strategies and illustrated throughout with personal quotes, vignettes and anecdotes from clients with autism with whom the author has worked clinically.

The book captures the individual stories, quotations and experiences, observed in adult autism diagnostic services, woven in with contemporary research, theory and clinical insights. It outlines the history of the condition and the present criteria for obtaining a diagnosis. With exercises, tips, questionnaires, psycho-educational work and advice sheets, this new edition also elucidates the female presentation of autism that has attained significance in the recent times.

The book is deliberately aimed at a broad audience of people: those who have just received a diagnosis and want to know more, those who are considering seeking a diagnosis, family members, relatives, friends and clinicians, including mental health workers, psychologists, support workers and all those who work with autistic people.

About this title

About the Author

Trevor Powell is an experienced clinical psychologist and author, who has spent the last 40 years, mainly working in the NHS, in the fields of mental health, neuropsychology and more recently, with adults with autism/Asperger’s syndrome. His previous books include The Mental Health Handbook and The Brain Injury Workbook.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367427613
• ISBN 13: 9780367427610
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 262