Book Review: Child Psychiatry: Asperger Syndrome

Book Reviews Child Psychiatry

This book is part of the Sage Publications series on developmental clinical psychology and psychiatry. According to the series editor, the author is to present the latest theory and research on specific types of dysfunction, diagnostic and treatment approaches, and special problem areas that affect adjustment. Authors are asked to bridge potential theory, research, and clinical practice and to ...

[Historical and clinical review about Asperger syndrome].

Exploring fathers' perceptions of parenting a child with Asperger syndrome.

This study explores Irish fathers' perceptions of parenting a child with Asperger syndrome (AS). Ethical approval was granted by the service provider, and Husserlian phenomenological approach facilitated the exploration. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews of nine fathers in the West region of Ireland. Data were transcribed and analysed using Colaizzi's (1978) method. The stu...

Asperger Syndrome

Asperger Syndrome (also called Asperger Disorder) is a relatively new category of developmental disorder, the term having only come into more general use over the past fifteen years. Although a group of children with this clinical picture was originally and very accurately described in the 1940's by a Viennese pediatrician, Hans Asperger, Asperger Syndrome (AS) was "officially" recognized in th...

Text-Book of Psychiatry

example, in the fight to the death which the wild mother will make for her offspring. The body of the book consists of two parts, the first on general, the second on special psychiatiy. In the former, the chief part is occupied by general symptomatology, considered under ten heads; thereafter follow the etiology and course, the anatomy, diagnosis, prognosis, and general treatment of mental dise...