Doing therapy with children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome

The conventional wisdom of the autism experts is that AS and HFA children arenot capableof benefiting from talk and play therapy. The author, based on years of experience and success with such clients, disagrees. What these childrenthink, feel and wonder about matters a lot to them. They want relationships even as they fear them, just as they want understanding and acceptance from others even as those human reactions cause anxiety. While heeding the specific developmental requisites of such children, the protocols delineated in this bookattend to the whole child, something that seems to have been neglected in themore recent history of autism treatment. Using vivid and telling case material, the book guides therapeutic work with children and adolescents who have AS and HFA. It reveals the wonder, beauty, intrigue and humor in working with these children. The book combines clinical wisdom, long experience, and a new view in a form that is engaging, readable, and attuned to the needs of cliniciansand the children they help.Richard Bromfield, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is on the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School and maintains a practice outside Boston. He writes about children, psychotherapy, and family life for professionals and general readers. He is author of Doing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Adapting Psychodynamic Treatment to Contemporary Practice; Teens in Therapy; Playing for Real: Exploring Child Therapy and the Inner Worlds of Children; and Precious Goods: Nurturing the Self in the Child with Aspergers.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-54025-1
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 07/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés