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Working with Girls and Young Women with an Autism Spectrum Condition: A

Practical Guide for Clinicians
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This guide shows how clinicians can help girls and young women with ASD to reach their full potential, by adopting more relationship-based, individualised approaches. With contributions from young women about their experiences in clinical settings, the book reflects on what clinicians have done right and wrong to date, why girls and women with ASD are too often misunderstood, and how the culture of how clinicians work with them needs to change in order to achieve better results. In a concise and practical way, it covers how to better understand clients' needs and foster strong relationships through diagnosis, understanding comorbidities, sensory issues, self-harm, emotional regulation, assessments, interventions and strategies.
Acknowledgements. Contributions. Introduction. 1. Why girls and young women with autism? 2. Milly, Darcey and Esther. 3. Beginning with relationships. 4. Mental health and emotional wellbeing. 5. Diagnosis/labels/being understood. 6. Co-morbidities. 7. Assessments. 8. Interventions and strategies. 9. Clinical and service culture change. Conclusion. References. List of abbreviations.
There are many ways in which a girl or woman may covertly express her Autism Spectrum Condition, and many ways in which she and her family need understanding and support. This practical, succinct and wise guide for clinicians provides advice on how to identify the female presentation of ASC, as well as how to adapt conventional individual and family therapy to accommodate the abilities and experiences of girls and women.
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