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What Does Psychoanalysis Have to Offer the Treatment of an ASD Child?
What does psychoanalysis have to offer models of intervention? There are several features of psychoanalytic theory and technique that can benefit the treatment of ASD children and their parents. First, the training and experience of psychoanalysts...
Similarities and Differences Between ESDM and DIR
The similarities are that they (1) Both see autism as a neurobiological disorder whose course can be significantly affected by the early caregiving environment; (2) Both work with very young children, often 2-years old or even younger; (3) They bo...
IPMH January Weekend III: Serena Wieder on Autism Spectrum Disorders
Dr. Wieder talked about her original collaboration with Stanley Greenspan. She wanted to do outreach to underprivileged population. They started long term study of an underprivileged population to answer the question of how do you know that a chil...
IPMH January Weekend II: Sally Rogers on Autism Spectrum Disorders
Although autism is a disorder of infancy, it is not usually diagnosed until between 3 and 4 years. In a recent consortium study, 664 infants who were sibs of ASD children were followed monthly from 6 mos. to 36 mos., when they were assessed for AS...
IPMH January Weekend I: Alice Carter on Autism Spectrum Disorders
In the morning Alice Carter started out talking about internalizing problems in early childhood, such as anxiety or mood disorders. These are distinguished from externalizing disorders that include behavioral problems, such as hyperactivity and di...
Making Music with Your Baby
On vacation, I have a chance to relax in the beautiful countryside and reflect. I have been reading more about the child-caregiver relationship and consideringdifferent “takes” on what makes it work and not work so well. One of the interesting res...
"Ben" and the Magic 747
An Exploration of the Mind of a Gifted ASD Boy and Implications for the Life of His Parents I am on my way to Australia to give a paper and to explore a little. I brought with me a pile of articles I had been collecting to read or to re-read. Not ...