Michelle Garnett

Autism is associated with many qualities that are highly sought after by employers such as reliability, persistence, attention to detail, creativity in problem solving and many others. The key to success in the workplace is understanding these strengths and identifying the support you need to help you flourish. This self-guided workbook provides advice, strategies and activities to manage the difficulties that can arise at work. You will be given the tools to help minimise anxiety, sensory overload, unhelpful thinking patterns, difficulties with social communication, and organisation and planning problems. The activities are interactive, and you can approach them on your terms. They can be dispersed throughout the day or week, and the workbook and accompanying videos include everything you need to set and achieve your employment goals. The course can also be undertaken with the assistance of a mentor, and the workbook includes resources and videos to help them support you.

These informative and multi-purpose cards use engaging photographs from the animal kingdom to explain neurodivergence, increase self-awareness, and help young people build self-esteem. Prepared by a globally best-selling team of authors and clinical psychologists, the card pack supports the development of neurodivergent identity and lays the groundwork for self-advocacy. It can be used as a therapeutic tool by professionals to set goals, track progress and establish clients' signature strengths and challenges, or by parents and carers in an informal context. Fun, colourful and accompanied by a short user booklet, you can't go wrong with this one-of-a-kind transdiagnostic tool.

En arbejdsbog med øvelser, aktiviteter og strategier til dig, der er autist og har brug for god trivsel i dit arbejdsliv eller at blive klædt godt på til et job. Denne bog giver dig viden, redskaber og teknikker til at håndtere stress og følelsesmæssige udfordringer, og til hvordan du begår dig socialt på din arbejdsplads og privat. Bogen er til dig, som enten er i arbejde, gerne vil søge nyt eller skifte job. AUTISME PÅ ARBEJDE kortlægger de mest kendte udfordringer, man som autist kan opleve i sit arbejdsliv. Den er fyldt med viden, eksempler og øvelser til, hvordan man helt konkret håndterer svære situationer, fx hvordan man indgår i forskellige sociale sammenhænge på jobbet. Gennem bogens forløb på syv trin kan man lære at håndtere de fleste problemer, man som autist kan møde:• Trin 1. Redskaber til stresshåndtering• Trin 2. Redskaber til håndtering af sansefølsomhed• Trin 3. Redskaber til sociale færdigheder• Trin 4. Redskaber til opmærksomhed• Trin 5. Redskaber til tænkning• Trin 6. Redskaber til planlægning• Trin 7. Udform din personlige jobplan. Om forfatterne:Tony Attwood er Ph.d., klinisk psykolog og en af verdens førende specialister i autisme. Michelle Garnett er klinisk psykolog og grundlægger af og tidligere direktør i Minds & Hearts, en klinik specialiseret i autisme. Der er behov for sunde og praksisnære strategier i arbejdslivets hverdag, uanset om du selv har autisme og er opmærksom på, at du skal tage særlige hensyn for at bevare dit overskud på arbejdet, eller om du er mentor, kollega, leder eller familiemedlem til en autistisk kollega.- Citat fra bogens forord af Kirsten Callesen, psykolog med speciale i autisme.

This activity book is a helpful and creative tool for children aged 4-8 to learn and understand their emotions to help reduce anxiety. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the 10 Steps to Reducing Your Child's Anxiety on the Autism Spectrum: The CBT-Based 'Fun with Feelings' Parent Manual. Come and have fun with us, your feelings! Get to know us so that we can help you express your feelings any time you need to! Say hello to Happy Henry Honeydew and see how his eyes light up, his mouth has a great big smile and how he's always laughing. Sit beside Sad Sally Strawberry and you'll learn that when she is sad her eyes look down, her face has a frown, and sometimes she cries. You can show that you are strong, brave and clever by meeting and getting to know all of your feelings. By getting to know your feelings, and learning about the Tools in your Toolbox, you will be able to express and talk about your feelings whenever you need to.

Recognising, expressing and understanding emotions helps young children make sense of their life experiences. Children diagnosed with autism can have significant difficulties with recognising and processing emotions which can lead to high levels of anxiety as they struggle to make sense of the unpredictable world around them. The 'Fun with Feelings' programme is designed to help parents support their children with emotional regulation and to decrease anxiety. This guide is structured around 10 stages. The initial four stages prepare parents to implement the programme with their child. These stages help parents understand the causes of anxiety and provide practical strategies for creating a toolbox to reduce anxiety. The final six stages are used in conjunction with Having Fun with Feelings on the Autism Spectrum: A CBT Activity Book for Kids Age 4-8, allowing parents to support their child while working through the activity book. Written by world-leading experts in the field, 10 Steps to Reducing Your Child's Anxiety on the Autism Spectrum provides the steppingstones for parents of young children with autism to better understand their child's emotional skill set and empower them to understand and articulate their feelings.

The revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book Asperger’s and Girls describes the unique challenges of females on the autism spectrum. In it, you’ll follow the lives of women with autism through childhood, the social and academic challenges of the education system, and into the career and dating worlds. You’ll also hear from top experts on crucial and often under-discussed subjects, including:Diagnosing girls with ASDNavigating the neurotypical social worldPuberty, sexual health, and personal safetyIndependence, relationships, and marriageThe importance of the right careerAnd so much more. This book is a necessity for women with autism and those who love and support them. Direct advice from leading professionals and candid stories written by the indomitable women who have lived them send an important message: we are women with autism. Give us the right tools and we can change the world. First edition was winner of the Gold Award, Foreword Book of the Year.

For people with ASDs, depression is common, and has particular features and causes. This outstanding book provides a comprehensive review of these aspects, and an effective self-help guide for anyone with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affected by depression. Written by the leading experts in the field, the book explains and describes depression, the forms it can take, and how it looks and feels for a person on the autism spectrum. The authors draw on the latest thinking and research to suggest strategies for coping with the effects of depression and provide a complete step-by-step CBT self-help programme, designed specifically for individuals with ASDs. The programme helps increase self-awareness, including identifying personal triggers, and provides the tools to combat depression.

Children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are often not instinctive and intuitive in expressing their liking or love for someone, or in understanding that family members, friends and others need affection. Expressing affection to teachers, other close professionals, or family friends, can be even more challenging. This book, by the leading experts in the field, provides a carefully constructed CBT programme for professionals to help boys and girls with an ASD to feel confident recognising, expressing and enjoying affection. The activities will help the young person identify their own and others' comfort and enjoyment range for gestures, actions and words of affection. They will also learn the variety of appropriate ways they can express liking or loving someone, helping them to strengthen friendships and relationships. This book will be an invaluable resource for professionals supporting a child with an ASD.

If your child rarely shows you that he or she loves you, it can be profoundly distressing. This is the experience of many parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and most fear that it reflects the truth. In fact the truth has generally more to do with the difficulty that young people with an ASD have in communicating like or love for someone physically and verbally. They may not know how to go about expressing themselves in these ways, or understand that family members and friends can find the absence of demonstrative affection upsetting. This book, by world leading experts Tony Attwood and Michelle Garnett, addresses this issue in practical terms. They provide carefully designed activities for parents to work through with their children to help them to understand and express affection. Their child will learn to identify his or her own and others' comfort and enjoyment range for gestures, actions and words of affection and the different ways to express feelings for someone, appropriate to each relationship and situation. The activities are simple, straightforward, and very carefully structured, so that they can be undertaken at the pace that works for the individual family. The book also guides the adult through the challenges faced by the child, leading to greater understanding and confidence in their relationship with their child, and increased ability to nurture the child's ability to form engaged relationships and friendships with others. Readers of Tony Attwood's previous books will recognise his warm, positive and empowering approach. The book will be a transformative resource for parents and family worried about their child's emotional life.