Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Relationship Counselling with Autistic Neurodiverse Couples: A Guide for Professionals
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Enhance your practice and improve outcomes for autistic clients with this indispensable guide by world-leading autism experts Tony Attwood and Maxine Aston.
A Clinician’s Guide to Neurodivergence: Supporting a Neuro-Affirmative Form of Practice
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A Clinician’s Guide to Neurodivergence: Supporting a neuro-affirmative form of practice is a concise handbook which provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of a range of conditions to support clinicians working with individuals with diverse neurocognitive profiles. It provides a practical guide for clinicians to move towards a more neuro-aware and neuro-affirmative way of working.
This title is due to be published on the 29th July 2025. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.
The Autism Dialogue Approach Handbook: Transforming Communication in Neurodiversity
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The Autism Dialogue Approach Handbook serves as both a comprehensive guide and a practical handbook for healthcare professionals, educators, caregivers and anyone engaging with the autism community.
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The Neurodiversity Affirmative Child Autism Assessment Handbook
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Based on new and emerging clinical research, this book is here to guide you through creating a neuro-affirmative child autism assessment process for your practice.
What Can We Do When School’s Not Working?: An Illustrated Handbook for Professionals
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“What Can We Do When School’s Not Working? is a fantastic resource and an absolute must read for parents of children struggling with school as well as all professionals and policy makers working in Education and anyone working with children.
On Being an Autistic Therapist
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This book is about working as autistic counsellors and psychotherapists. It is a collection of stand-alone chapters put together by members of the international online collective Autistic Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ACP). It shares their main aims: to tackle the lack of appropriate therapy available to autistic clients and to challenge the common stereotypes about autistic people, which are still very much alive and can bar them both from therapy and therapy training.
The Psychology of Music and Autism: Hearing, Feeling, Thinking, Doing
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This book considers the cognitive, behavioural and socio-emotional aspects of autism in relation to music perception, musical engagement and music production.
Neurodiversity-Affirming Psychotherapy: Clinical Pathways to Autistic Mental Health
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Neurodiversity-Affirming Psychotherapy: Clinical Pathways to Autistic Mental Health provides an attachment-based framework within which clinicians can support autistic/neurodivergent clients to benefit from effective, trauma-informed psychotherapy.
Improving Mental Health Therapies for Autistic Children and Young People: Promoting Self-agency, Curiosity and Collaboration
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This unique, collaborative book, featuring contributions from autistic and non-autistic experts, presents cutting-edge thinking on mental health and service transformation in relation to autistic children and young people (CYP) and their families.
Exploring Autistic Sexualities, Relationality, and Genders : Living Under a Double Rainbow
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The book is primarily intended for postgraduate students and academics across disciplines including sociology, social work, psychology, disability studies, inclusive and special education, and sexual education. Mental health professionals and educators will also find it a useful resource to support their Autistic clients as well as developing their own understanding about how to support Autistic people in a neurodiversity-affirming, kink-affirming, LGBTQ+, and gender-variant way.
Autism in Polyvagal Terms: New Possibilities and Interventions
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By presenting the autism diagnosis through the lens of a disordered nervous system—that is, by applying Polyvagal Theory—this book opens new avenues for intervention and treatment, while challenging age-old assumptions of what autism means and how it presents itself.
Supporting Neurodivergent Children and Families: A Practitioner’s Guide
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Supporting Neurodivergent Children and Families presents an innovative blueprint using academic literature, research and theory, to provide a best practice approach in equipping practitioners to support neurodivergent children and their families.
Autism Missed and Misdiagnosed: Identifying, Understanding and Supporting Diverse Autistic Identities
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This comprehensive resource will help multidisciplinary professions to understand, contextualise, and better identify diverse autistic presentations.
Play Interventions for Neurodivergent Children and Adolescents: Promoting Growth, Empowerment, and Affirming Practices
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This revamped second edition provides several play interventions designed to address a variety of common mental health needs that neurodivergent children face, such as social navigation, regulation, relationship development, anxiety issues, identity struggles, and self-advocacy.
Neurodiverse Couple Therapy: A Practical Guide to Brain-Informed Care
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This book aims to implement a paradigm shift in the field and is essential reading for therapy students. It is invaluable reading for practicing therapists that did not receive training on working with neurodiverse clients.
Is This Autism?: A Companion Guide for Diagnosing
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This very practical clinical guide provides a clear and neurodiversity-affirmative approach to autism assessment, particularly for autistic individuals who have previously been missed. It is relevant to all healthcare professionals who want to learn how to identify autism in their clients.
A Different Way to Learn: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education
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This comprehensive overview of self-directed learning is packed with ideas on how to implement it at home and includes interviews from parents of neurodivergent children on how you can make learning differently work for you and your child. Visit Dr Fisher’s own website for details of her excellent courses and webinars – https://www.naomifisher.co.uk/
Is This Autism?: A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else
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Though our understanding of autism has greatly expanded, many autistic individuals are still missed or misdiagnosed. This highly accessible book clarifies many ways that autism can present, particularly in people who camouflage to hide their autistic traits.
Understanding Autistic Relationships Across the Lifespan: Family, Friends, Lovers and Others
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Understanding Autistic Relationship Across the Lifespan is an accessible overview of autistic relationships from the early years through to old age. This much-needed book combines the latest research findings with first-hand accounts to offer insight into the relationships of autistic people and how they differ to those of non-autistic people in a range of ways.
Black, Brilliant and Dyslexic: Neurodivergent Heroes Tell their Stories
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‘My book showcases positive role models for black and people within our wider dyslexic community and society, to inspire current and future generations.’
The Pocket Guide to Neurodiversity
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Busting common misconceptions and setting out simple tips and guidance for supporting the neurodivergent people around you, whether among your family, friends or at your school, college or workplace – or if you yourself are ND and want to improve the understanding of others – this essential guide will help us all celebrate neurodiversity and foster more inclusive communities.
Special Interests in Art Therapy with Autistic People: A Neurodiversity-Positive Approach to Empower and Engage Participants
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Introducing the Special Interest Communication Theory (SICT) Facilitative Framework, this guide will help you to support autistic clients and meet their needs through special interests and pop culture.
Understanding and Treating Sleep Disturbances in Autism: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
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This is the cutting edge resource for professionals and academics seeking further insight into sleep disturbances and autism, exploring contemporary research and setting the groundwork for the most effective methods of treatment for individuals of all ages.
The Rise of Autism: Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis
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This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism since the 1990s. Providing an engaging account of competing and widely debated explanations, it investigates how these have led to differing interpretations of the same data. Crucially, the author argues that the increased use of autism diagnosis is due to medicalisation across the life course, whilst holding open the possibility that the rise may also be partly accounted for by modern-day environmental exposures, again, across the life course.