Treating Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Treating Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A Psychoanalytic and Developmental Approach outlines a unique model, the product of over twenty years of experience in working with children with this diagnosis within Shaked—a multi-professional educational-therapeutic day-care unit in Israel.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of this model and the psychoanalytic-developmental perspective underpinning it, which weaves together the various professional views into a single fabric. It integrates a therapeutic network which encompasses every aspect of the child's development. Drawing on psychoanalytic and developmental psychology, each chapter is devoted to the daily problems that arise when working with ASD children, such as weaning and toilet training, as well as the effects of ASD on wider family functioning. All of this is presented in the context of administering treatment to young children in day-care and other non-residential settings.

Treating Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder offers an essential, practical guide which will be an asset to any clinician working with young children on the autistic spectrum, as well as the parents and siblings of these children.