Signs of Autism in Infants: Recognition and Early Intervention [Paperback]

Stella Acquarone (Editor), Joan Raphael-Leff (Foreword)

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Publication Date: May 2007

This book brings hope where despair has prevailed. It offers the prospect of early detection of prodromal signs of autism and the possibility of effective therapeutic mitigation.

Directed at the clinical practitioners who must build bridges between theory and practice, this book combines what we know with what we know that works, all for the betterment of the babies and their families. Early intervention is the treatment, the tool of the clinician, because it sits somewhere between prevention and acute care. The advances described in the book—from the medical, biological and psychological sciences—have extended our reach for better outcomes into the preverbal, the unconscious and the mental matrices that define our behavior. Stella Acquarone and her colleagues show us that we can recognize the signs of autism in infants and intervene early—and that these interventions have proved successful.

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About the Author

Stella Acquarone is the Director of the Parent-Infant Clinic of the School of Infant Mental Health in London and its branch in the USA. She is a practicing adult and child psychotherapist and has worked in the NHS for thirty one years. A member of the British Psychological Society, the Association of Child Psychotherapists and the London Centre for Psychotherapy, Acquarone has pioneered studies in early infant clinical research and development, and lectures internationally on all aspects of infant-parent development and psychotherapy. She has written extensively in professional papers, journals and chapters in books and has taught infant observational studies and new clinical strategies in working with disturbed children.

Joan Raphael-Leff leads the UCL/Anna Freud Centre academic faculty for psychoanalytic research. Previously, she was head of University College London’s MSc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology, and professor of psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. For 35 years she has specialized in emotional issues of reproduction and early parenting, with more than 100 single-author peer-reviewed publications, and nine books, including: Psychological Processes of Child-bearing; Pregnancy: the Inside Story; Parent–Infant Psychodynamics: Wild Things, Mirrors and Ghosts; Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss and Breakdown; Ethics of Psycho-analysis. Founder and first international chair of COWAP (IPA’s Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis) in 1998, she provides training for practitioners working with teenage parents, and is consultant to perinatal and women’s projects in many high and low income countries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 298 pages
• Publisher: Karnac Books; 1 edition (May 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 185575486X
• ISBN-13: 978-1855754867
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #934,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on Attachment and Relational Approaches to Autism, January 9, 2010

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This review is from: Signs of Autism in Infants: Recognition and Early Intervention (Paperback)

this is an excellent book that reviews attachment behavior in autism. I liked its relational approach to autism. There are also handy guides to working with the autistic population,