Overview
- Explores the factors associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) treatments
- Discusses significant advances made during the past decades in developing autism interventions
- Sets the stage for continued strides to be made in understanding and treating ASD
- Addresses issues relating to patient protection and treatment goals
- Comprehensively reviews evidence-based treatments for children, adolescents, and adults with ASD
Part of the book series: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series (ACPS)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- ABA licensure and autism treatment
- ADHD and autism
- Anxiety and autism
- Applied Behavior Analysis certification
- Augmentative communication and autism
- Behavior therapy and parent training
- Behavior therapy and staff training
- Challenging behaviors and autism
- Depression and autism
- Early intensive behavioral interventions and ASD
- Ethics and autism treatments
- Evidence-based ASD interventions
- Informed consent and autism
- IRB standards for ASD treatments
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and ASD
- OCD and autism
- Parent-selected ASD treatments
- Positive behavior supports and autism
- Social skills training and autism
- Treatment efficacy and ASD
About this book
This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the numerous factors associated with treatments for children, youth, and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It offers in-depth analysis of evidence-based treatments for young children, providing coverage on interventions within social skills training, school curricula, communication and speech training, and augmentative communication. It also covers treatments for adolescents and adults, including vocational programs, social integration programs, and mental health resources. Chapters also review several popular interventions such as functional behavior analysis, sensory integration therapy, early intensive behavioral interventions (EIBI), and floor time. In addition, the Handbook discusses standards of practice, focusing on ethical issues, review boards, training concerns, and informed consent.
Topics featured in the Handbook include:- Training for parents of individuals diagnosed with ASD.
- Treatment of socially reinforced problem behavior.
- Comorbid challenging behaviors.
- Post-secondary education supports and programs for adults.
- The TEACCH Program for people with ASD.
- Treatment of addiction in adults with ASD.
- Diet and nutrition based treatments targeted at children with ASD.
The Handbook of Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians/professionals, and graduate students in clinical child, school, and developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, and social work as well as rehabilitation medicine/therapy, behavioral therapy, pediatrics, and educational psychology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Editors: Johnny L. Matson
Series Title: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61738-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61737-4Published: 17 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87149-3Published: 26 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61738-1Published: 03 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-922X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 494
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Work