| Parenting Your Child with Autism: Practical Solutions, Strategies, and Advice for Helping Your Family Contributor(s): Sastry, Anjali (Author), Aguirre, Blaise (Author) |
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ISBN: 1608821900 ISBN-13: 9781608821907 Publisher: New Harbinger Publications OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Autism Spectrum Disorders - Family & Relationships | Children With Special Needs - Family & Relationships | Parenting - General |
| Dewey: 618.928 |
| LCCN: 2012003630 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Amid a bewildering range of treatments that promise to alleviate or even cure autism, even the leading researchers can't predict what will work for your child. As a parent, you are in a unique position to become the practical expert on your child's needs and strengths. Parenting Your Child with Autism will equip you with family-tested and science-based approaches for meeting the challenges ahead. You'll learn how to get a diagnosis and navigate the health care and educational systems, make sense of your child's treatment options, and tap into expert opinions and your own observations to find a treatment program that works. Perhaps most importantly, you will learn how to become your child's best advocate, and build a better life for your child. This book focuses on the processes and decisions parents of children with autism face every day. To help you build an everyday life that works for your child with autism and other family members, this book shares suggestions that range from practical and educational to philosophical, closing with some personal and professional advice for your journey ahead. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aguirre, Blaise: - Blaise Aguirre, MD, is assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and an expert in child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapy, including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and medication evaluation and management. He is founding medical director of McLean 3East--a unique residential DBT program for young women exhibiting self-endangering behaviors and borderline personality disorder (BPD) traits. Dr. Aguirre has been a staff psychiatrist at McLean since 2000, and is internationally recognized for his extensive work in the treatment of mood and personality disorders in adolescents. He lectures regularly in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East on DBT and BPD. Dr. Aguirre is author of Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents and Depression (Biographies of Disease), and coauthor of Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder and Helping Your Troubled Teen. |