Aspies on Mental Health Speaking for Ourselves (PDF)

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Synopsis

People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) can be particularly at risk of developing mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Here, adults with Asperger Syndrome speak out about their own experiences of mental health issues, offering sound advice for other Aspies and providing valuable insights for family, friends and also for mental health professionals.

Touching on everything from difficulties at work and college to coping with low self-confidence, self-harm, alcohol, misdiagnosis, sectioning, counselling, medication and battles with mental health services, the book provides a window into how people with AS experience mental health issues, and what can be done to help. The individual accounts describe innovative coping strategies and methods for maintaining emotional and psychological wellbeing as well as practical advice on things like how to stay positive and deal with day-to-day stress and meltdowns.

This is essential reading for adults with Asperger Syndrome, and their families and friends, and will be a useful resource for psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health service providers and other professionals who support adults with Asperger Syndrome.

Book details

Author:
Alexandra Brown, Anne Henderson, Anthony Sclafani, Chris Mitchell, Chris Smedley, Christopher Wilson, Dean Worton, Debbie Allan, E Veronica Bliss, Janet Christmas, Luke Beardon, Lynette Marshall, Melanie Smith, Natasha Goldthorpe, Neil Shepherd, Stephen Jarvis, Stephen William Cornwell, Wendy Lim
ISBN:
9780857002877
Related ISBNs:
9781849051521
Publisher:
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2017-05-20
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2011
Copyright by:
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Disability-Related, Nonfiction, Parenting and Family, Psychology