Understanding Autistic Adults - Supporting Personal Professional Pathways Overcoming Challenges

The author connects autistics' accounts with existing academic knowledge by supplementing the latest research with client and other ASD individuals' writings and psychological portraits. Written for autistic adults and helping professionals who support them, this book addresses various areas in which autistics may navigate throughout adulthood.

List of contents

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part I: Professional Pathways for Autistic Adults
1 Autistic Doctors
2 Autistic Therapists
3 Autistic Musicians
4 Autistic Teachers
5 Other Professional Arenas Where Autistics May Be Found
Part II: Challenges in the Lives of Autistic Adults
6 Autism and Eating Disorders
7 Autism and Gender Diversity
8 Klinefelter Syndrome and Autism
9 Autistics in the Sex Industry
10 Autism and Dissociative Disorders
11 Autistics Who Seem to be "Stuck"
Part III: Broader Theoretical Perspectives
12 Autistics Misdiagnosed with Wrong Diagnoses
13 The Disrupted Integration between Primary and Secondary Processes in Autistic Thinking
14 A Proposed Matrix for the Categorization of Autistic People
15 Endnote: Ways to Assist Autistic Adults
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Sagit Blumrosen-Sela

Product details

• Authors: Sagit Blumrosen-Sela
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2024
• EAN: 9781538197165
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-9716-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; SELF-HELP / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders, MEDICAL / Neurology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, EDUCATION / Special Education / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Autism Spectrum Disorders, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: counselling, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, Autism & Asperger's Syndrome, Coping with / advice about autism / Asperger’s