01-01-2012 | Book Review
R. Bromfield: Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010, 215 pp, $34.95 (Hardcover), ISBN 978-0-470-54025-1
Auteur:
Michelle Garnett
Gepubliceerd in:
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
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Excerpt
Since Lorna Wing (
1981) coined the term “Asperger’s Syndrome” and provided the first descriptions in English of the profile of abilities of a child with Asperger’s Syndrome, there has been an explosion of recognition and interest about the condition, resulting in hundreds of publications. Despite this explosion, there are very few books available to guide the therapist in designing and implementing psychotherapy for the child or adolescent with Asperger’s. Dr Richard Bromfield, a clinical psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, has written a book that exactly meets this need. With eloquence and empathy, Dr Bromfield describes a new therapeutic approach for children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism. To inform his approach he draws from his clinical knowledge and wisdom based on nearly 30 years experience, the current research and clinical literature, and he illustrates his approach with many rich case examples drawn from his own practice. …