Understanding Tourette Syndrome - A Guide to Symptoms, Management and Treatment

List of contents

Table of Contents
1: A Short History of Tourette Syndrome
2: A Medical Overview of Tourette Syndrome
3: Diagnosing Tourette Syndrome
4: Therapy for Tourette Syndrome
5: The Role of Family
6: The Role of School
7: Friendships and Leisure Time
8: Tourette Syndrome and the Law
9: A Case Study of a Tourette Syndrome Sufferer: Giuseppe

About the author

Carlotta Zanaboni Dina is psychologist and psychotherapist of AIST (Italian Association for TS patients), and Trainer of two CBT Academies. She has been working at the Tourette Syndrome Centre, Milan, Italy, for 10 years. She previously conducted her studies at the Yale Child Study Center, US, with Professor Leckman, and also in London, UK, namely with Professor Robertson and Dr. Hedderly’s team at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital.
Mauro Porta, neurologist, is former Teaching Professor of the University of Milan, founder of AIST, and Director of the Extrapyramidal Diseases and Tourette Syndrome Centre at Galeazzi Clinical and Research Hospital, Milan, Italy. He worked at the Northwestern University of Chicago, USA, and got a Master Degree in Functional Neurosurgery. Named also as "Charcot’s son", Mauro spent several years working at the Salpêtrière Hospital of Paris, birthplace of Tourette syndrome.

Summary

Understanding Tourette Syndrome sets out concise, evidence-based guidelines on this developmental disorder by combining an exploration of signs, diagnosis and treatment with a broader psychosocial approach. Zanaboni and Mauro outline the various symptoms of the disease, including tics, echolalia, palilalia, coprolalia and copropraxia.

Product details

• Authors: Carlotta Zanaboni Dina, Carlotta Zanaboni Porta Dina, Mauro Porta
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2019
• EAN: 9781138595590
• ISBN: 978-1-138-59559-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Understanding Atypical Development
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, MEDICAL / Neurology, Psychotherapy, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Psychotherapy: child and adolescent, Teaching of students with learning difficulties, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Speech and language disorders and therapy, Psychiatric Nursing, Speech & language disorders & therapy, Paediatric nursing, Psychiatric nursing / Mental health nursing