Coming out Asperger : diagnosis, disclosure and self-confidence /
This book explores the complexity of diagnosis for Asperger Syndrome, the drawbacks and benefits of disclosing a ""hidden disability,"" and how this impinges on self-esteem. The contributors include some of the best-known and most exciting writers in the field of AS today, and in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- To tell or not to tell : that is the Aspie question / Liane Holliday Willey
- Diagnosis in adults / Tony Attwood
- Confidence, self-confidence and social confidence / Dinah Murray and Mike Lesser
- Psychiatry and Asperger syndrome / Tom Berney
- Being told or being told off? Reciprocity at the diagnostic interview / Michelle Dawson
- Mental health issues surrounding diagnosis, disclosure and self-confidence in the context of Asperger syndrome / David N. Andrews
- One that got away / Dinah Murray
- 'Why's it all so difficult?' Sharing the diagnosis with the young person / Philip Whitaker
- Telling peers at school about Asperger syndrome : thoughts on how and why / Heta Pukki
- Disclosure at secondary school : sharing the news of Asperger syndrome with a young person's peer group / Penny Barratt
- The conversation / Jennifer Overton
- Disclosure : talking about what makes us human / Stephen Shore
- Disclosure : a parent's perspective / Jacqui Jackson
- Coming out, various / Wendy Lawson
- Diagnosis, disclosure and self-confidence in sexuality and relationships / Lynne Moxon
- Diagnosis in adulthood and community disclosure / Dora Georgiou
- Coming out autisitic at work / Jane Meyerding
- Disclosing to the authorities / Dennis Debbaudt.