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Carrying the Hope
By Alexandra Solomon
When a child is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, everything in a family changes. Good-enough parenting must give way to the demands of Ÿberparenting—always mindful, always well-paced, always at the child's learning edge.
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Are Vaccines to Blame?
By Alexandra Solomon
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The Big 3 Therapeutic Approaches
By Alexandra Solomon
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Autism's 5 Core Deficits Defined
By Alexandra Solomon
School Daze
By Diane Yapko
Constant uncertainty about who's a friend and who's a foe, the mundane chaos of the classroom, rules that always seem to be changing—an ordinary day at school is a baffling experience for kids with Asperger's syndrome.
The Missing Piece
By Richard Howlin
To go through life with Asperger's as an adult is like walking onto a stage and being the only actor who doesn't know the lines or plot. But as the condition becomes better understood, therapists are developing ways to provide stage directions that can make a difference.
Meet Me Halfway
By Nathan Weissler
The worry and wonder of living with AS.
Grand Illusion
By Mary Sykes Wylie
In the last few decades, getting ahead, always a leitmotif in American society, gave way to a collective hallucination of striking it filthy rich. As we awaken with anxiety and dread from this version of the American Dream, it's time to reexamine our mindset about money.
The Second Avenue Deli School of Economics
By Esther Rothman
You think the toboggan ride of your 401(k) has been rough!? A survivor of the Great Depression muses on what that era taught her about managing the unmanageable.
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DEPARTMENTS
Clinician's Digest
By Garry Cooper
- Drugs for mental performance
- Another look at the APA's stance on torture
- The effects of Internet porn
- In praise of older meds n Sexual attraction in couples therapy
In Consultation
By Neil Bernstein
Everything you need to know about becoming a media celebrity.
Bookmarks
Reviewed By Richard Handler
Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
In his broadside against modern psychiatry, a historian claims that the entire profession has been undermined by the blind pursuit of profit, bureaucratic regulation, political infighting, and shoddy research.
Case Studies
By Maggie Phillips
More and more chronic pain patients are being referred to therapists after their physicians conclude that they show every appearance of being healed.
--Commentary By Ronald Siegel
Family Matters
By By Sylvia Johnson
Helping a child move through grief sometimes means avoiding the temptation to ease her pain.
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