The Strengths-Based Guide to Supporting Autistic Children: A Positive Psychology Approach to Parenting

This book will show you and your child that their unique character strengths can empower them and shape their future. It combines personal experience as an autistic person and mother with expert knowledge to demonstrate the value of a strengths-based approach.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 21 February 2023
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Being strength-aware has brought many moments of joy to our family life. It is this potential for growth and joy that I now want to share in this book.

This flexible, dip-in-dip-out guide will introduce you to the strengths-based approach that is helping autistic children and their families to thrive. By focusing on how to identify, develop, and use your child's strengths to support them throughout childhood and into adolescence, this transformative approach is here to show you and your child that their unique character strengths can empower them and shape their future.

Claire O'Neill combines her personal experience as an autistic person and mother to autistic children with her expert knowledge as a professional working with autistic young people to demonstrate the value of a strengths-based approach. With step-by-step instructions on how parents and teachers can incorporate this approach easily into family and school life, Claire also offers a variety of specific tips, tricks, and engaging activities to provide ongoing support for parents and teachers alike.

By embracing the strengths of your child, you can create a supportive and nurturing environment that helps them to reach their full potential. This book will show you how to do just that, and by doing so, you can help your child to thrive and live a fulfilling life.

Weight: 306g
Dimension: 151 x 230 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781839972157