Author : Susan M. Wilczynski
Release : 2024-08-26
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 336/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions That Work for Autistic People by : Susan M. Wilczynski

Download or read book A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions That Work for Autistic People written by Susan M. Wilczynski. This book was released on 2024-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions that Work for Autistic People: Diversity Affirming Evidence-Based Practice, second edition, provides a socially valid, culturally sensitive, and person-centered resource to aid practitioners in guiding the selection of effective interventions. By providing multiple illustrative examples, practitioners will learn to use their professional judgment to integrate the best available evidence with client values and context. The second edition includes new chapters on diversity affirmation and cultural adaptations of interventions, quality of life, self-determination, guided decision-making, and ethics as foundational skills for identifying effective, socially valid interventions that are delivered with compassion and assent/consent. Presents a detailed description of the diversity-affirming evidence-based practice decision-making model Offers a framework that helps practitioners integrate the best available evidence with client values and context Demonstrates how to culturally adapt interventions and center decision-making on the client Guides practitioners through the process of assessing intervention outcomes that fit with client values and contextual variables Provides numerous concrete examples involving Autistic people holding many intersecting identities