Essential Clinical Guide to Understanding and Treating Autism

Fred R. Volkmar, Lisa A. Wiesner

John Wiley & Sons, Aug 21, 2017 - Psychology - 368 pages

Coauthored by the premier expert on autism in the United States and an experienced academic and practicing pediatrician, this volume provides concise and practical information based on the most up-to-date research and clinical experience for primary care givers around the world. Showing clinicians how to most effectively use evidence-based techniques, this invaluable guide offers primary-care providers access to expert, current research and practice guidelines allowing them to confidently support children who present with symptoms of autism.

Contents

• Diagnostic Concepts Causes and Current Research: 1
• Screening and Diagnostic Assessment: 25
• Approaches to Providing Medical Care: 49
• Frequent Medical Conditions and Problems: 67
• Overview of Educational Programs and Interventions: 93
• Securing Services: 121
• Autism in Infants and Preschool Children: 145
• SchoolAge Children: 171
• Adolescents and Adults: 201
• Issues and Interventions: 219
• Considering Medications for Behavior and Mental Health Problems: 245
• Considering Complementary and Alternative: 271
• for Autism and Related Pervasive: 309
• Understanding School and Specialist: 315
• k: 340

About the author

FRED R. VOLKMAR, M.D., is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale University School of Medicine and the former Director of the Center. He is the primary author of the American Psychiatric Associations DSM-IV section on Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders. Dr. Volkmar has directed Autism research at Yale and the coauthor of a number of books, including Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, 4th edition (Wiley, 2013). The mentor of several hundred students, he has a strong interest in bringing research knowledge to primary care providers and to parents and teachers.

LISA A. WIESNER, M.D., is a pediatrician in private practice in Orange, Connecticut. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric training at Yale New Haven Hospital and a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Yale. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of pediatrics at Yale and the co-author with Dr. Volkmar of A Practical Guide to Autism: What Every Parent, Family Member, and Teacher needs to Know (Wiley, 2009).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Essential Clinical Guide to Understanding and Treating Autism; Wiley Essential Clinical Guides to Understanding and Treating Issues of Child Mental Health
• Editors: Fred R. Volkmar, Lisa A. Wiesner
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2017
• ISBN: 111858662X, 9781118586624
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Medical / General; Psychology / Developmental / Child