Autism Casebook for Parents and Practitioners: The Child Behind the Symptoms

Dr. Levin Fox's autism casebook offers a fresh perspective on assessing, diagnosing, and treating young children thought to be autistic, challenging the over-diagnosis and misdiagnosis of autism and advocating for qualitative assessment methods based on play to yield a more accurate clinical understanding of a child's difficulties and strengths.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 222 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Drawing from the author's extensive clinical experience, this autism casebook offers stimulating reflections and a fresh perspective on how we assess, diagnose, and ultimately treat young children thought to be autistic. Challenging what she perceives as the rampant over-diagnosis and misdiagnosis of autism, and the commonly accepted status of autism as an unchangeable trait, Dr. Levin Fox illustrates how the developmental play strategies of DIRFloortime, combined with the creative psychological perspective of Reuven Feuerstein, create an effective way of identifying the child's strengths behind the autistic symptoms. The chapters are an accessible mix of clinical insights, theoretical reflections, and vivid case stories that argue and illustrate that qualitative assessment methods based on play have the power to yield a more accurate clinical understanding of a child's difficulties—and strengths—than conventional symptom-focused autism assessment methods. This engaging casebook will stimulate practitioners, educators, and students in the field of autism to question commonly held assumptions when assessing and treating autistic children, as it both urges and illustrates more reflective practice. Parents of children considered autistic will find renewed encouragement and hope in these enlightening case stories.

Weight: 346g
Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367434410