Textbook of Autism Spectrum Disorders - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585623415 ISBN 13: 9781585623419

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, 2010

Synopsis

This comprehensive textbook of autism spectrum disorders is designed to meet the growing need for cutting-edge research and treatment information for clinicians who encounter patients and clients with these disorders in their practice psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, speech therapists, and educators and for parents who seek to understand their children s disorders and treatment options. The editors have assembled foremost clinical experts in autism spectrum disorders, as well as in genetics, pharmacology, pathophysiology, neurology, neuroimaging, and other fields that contribute to our understanding of these complex disorders. The book features exhaustive coverage of established treatment approaches but also covers alternative and experimental therapies in-depth. By so doing, the editors hope to establish a benchmark for understanding autism on a number of levels, with knowledge that is both broad and deep. More patients are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders, and at earlier ages, than ever before, and these patients and their families receive services in increasingly diverse settings. Destined to become a classic, Textbook of Autism Spectrum Disorders is the volume for which patients, families, and clinicians have been waiting.

About this title

About the Author

Eric Hollander, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Compulsive, Impulsive, and Autism Spectrum Disorders Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York. Previously, he was Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry and Director of the Seaver and New York Autism Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Alex Kolevzon, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics and Clinical Director of the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York. Joseph T. Coyle, M.D., is the Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. Previously, he served as the Distinguished Service Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Review

"Clinically, the book has some excellent contributors with very strong chapters that make a major contribution and with conclusions that are likely to survive the effect of time. The editors have gathered very authoritative voices summarizing current knowledge on autism, which will undoubtedly make this textbook particularly useful for clinicians."-- "Mara Parellada, Ph.D., The American Journal of Psychiatry", "January 2011"

Edition details

• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1585623415
• ISBN 13: 9781585623419
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 603
• Editor: Hollander Eric, Kolevzon Alexander M.D., Coyle Joseph T.