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Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism

2019-08-21 Psychology
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Release : 2019-08-21
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism by : Amitta Shah

Download or read book Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism written by Amitta Shah. This book was released on 2019-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book provides the first detailed clinical analysis of the various manifestations of catatonia, shutdown and breakdown in autistic individuals, with a new assessment framework (ACE-S) and guidance on intervention and management strategies using a psycho-ecological approach. Based on Dr Amitta Shah's lifetime of clinical experience in Autism Spectrum Disorders, and her research in collaboration with Dr Lorna Wing, this much needed book will be a valuable resource for professionals, autistic individuals and their families and carers.

Catatonia

2006-11-23 Medical
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Release : 2006-11-23
Genre : Medical
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Book Synopsis Catatonia by : Max Fink

Download or read book Catatonia written by Max Fink. This book was released on 2006-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaches the reader how to identify and treat catatonia successfully, and describes its neurobiology.

The Autism Discussion Page on Stress, Anxiety, Shutdowns and Meltdowns

2019-10-21 Family & Relationships
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Release : 2019-10-21
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Synopsis The Autism Discussion Page on Stress, Anxiety, Shutdowns and Meltdowns by : Bill Nason

Download or read book The Autism Discussion Page on Stress, Anxiety, Shutdowns and Meltdowns written by Bill Nason. This book was released on 2019-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxiety, meltdowns and emotional regulation can be hugely challenging for autistic people. This book is full of proactive strategies for understanding, accepting and respecting the processing differences in autism. It contains tools for reducing sensory, social and mental drain, and offers strategies to protect from ongoing stress and anxiety. These help minimize shutdowns and burnout, while maximizing self-esteem, autistic identity and mental health. Learn strategies for matching environmental demands to the person's processing needs, how to support vulnerabilities, and how to prevent and manage meltdowns while protecting the identify and self-esteem of the individual with autism.

Each Day I Like It Better

2014-04-15 Medical
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Release : 2014-04-15
Genre : Medical
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Book Synopsis Each Day I Like It Better by : Amy S. F. Lutz

Download or read book Each Day I Like It Better written by Amy S. F. Lutz. This book was released on 2014-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 2009, Amy Lutz and her husband, Andy, struggled with one of the worst decisions parents could possibly face: whether they could safely keep their autistic ten-year-old son, Jonah, at home any longer. Multiple medication trials, a long procession of behavior modification strategies, and even an almost year-long hospitalization had all failed to control his violent rages. Desperate to stop the attacks that endangered family members, caregivers, and even Jonah himself, Amy and Andy decided to try the controversial procedure of electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. Over the last three years, Jonah has received 136 treatments. His aggression has greatly diminished, and for the first time Jonah, now fourteen, is moving to a less restricted school. Each Day I Like It Better recounts the journeys of Jonah and seven other children and their families (interviewed by the author) in their quests for appropriate educational placements and therapeutic interventions. The author describes their varied, but mostly successful, experiences with ECT. A survey of research on pediatric ECT is incorporated into the narrative, and a foreword by child psychiatrist Dirk Dhossche and ECT researcher and practitioner Charles Kellner explains how ECT works, the side effects patients may experience, and its current use in the treatment of autism, catatonia, and violent behavior in children.

The Madness of Fear

2018-06-27 Medical
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Release : 2018-06-27
Genre : Medical
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Book Synopsis The Madness of Fear by : Edward Shorter

Download or read book The Madness of Fear written by Edward Shorter. This book was released on 2018-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing wrong with basic science research, but before studying the role of brain circuits or cerebral chemistry, shouldn't we be able to specify how the various diseases present clinically? Catatonia is a human behavioral syndrome that for almost a century was buried in the poorly designated psychiatric concept of schizophrenia. Its symptoms are well-know, and some of them are serious. Catatonic patients may die as their temperatures accelerate; they become dehydrated because they refuse to drink; they risk inanition because they refuse to eat or move. Autistic children with catatonia may hit themselves repeatedly in the head. We don't really know what catatonia is, in the sense that we know what pneumonia is. But we can identify it, and it is eminently treatable. Clinicians can make these patients better on a reliable basis. There are few other disease entities in psychiatry of which this is true. So why has there been so little psychiatric interest in catatonia? Why is it simply not on the radar of most clinicians? Catatonia actually occurs in a number of other medical illnesses as well, but it is certainly not on the radar of most internists or emergency physicians. In The Madness of Fear, Drs. Shorter and Fink seek to understand why this "vast field of ignorance" exists. In the history of catatonia, they see a remarkable story about how medicine flounders, and then seems to find its way. And it may help doctors, and the public, to recognize catatonia as one of the core illnesses in psychiatry.

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