Autism and the Stress Effect: A 4-step lifestyle approach to transform your child's health, happiness and vitality

by Theresa Hamlin, John Ratey (Foreword by)

Overview

Presenting a revolutionary lifestyle approach for the whole family, this step-by-step guide will help you to reduce your child's stress and anxiety levels by regulating their environment, eating and nutrition, energy, and encouraging emotional self-regulation.

Children with autism often experience very high stress levels in learning and social environments, which can exacerbate problem behaviors and damage their physical and emotional health. This book demonstrates that lowering stress levels through regulating a child's experiences and environments, and giving them the tools to cope when stressful situations are unavoidable, can make a huge and very positive difference to their behavior, physical health, socialisation and happiness.

Brimming with exercises, recipes, tips and real-life examples, this warm and supportive guide will help you transform the life of your child with autism and benefit the whole family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784501785
Publisher:	Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
Publication date:	11/21/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	753 KB

About the Author

Theresa Hamlin is Associate Executive Director for the Center for Discovery, New York State. She has a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and has been at the center since 1983. She oversees program operations, management, curriculum design, and program evaluation. She has been the director of several federally funded grants aimed at providing education and support to families of children with severe disabilities, and is the Faculty Chair of the Carrus Institute for family support and research. Theresa also has a family member with autism.

Table of Contents

Part One. Introduction. Introduction to Autism and The Stress Effect. 1. A New Way Foreword. 2. Decades of Cumulative Knowledge. 3. Autism and The Stress Effect. Part Two. A Word About Regulating. 4. Environmental Regulation. 5. Eating and Nutritional Regulation. Co-written by Jennifer Frank, R.D. 6. Emotional Self-Regulation. Co-written by Johanna Lantz, Ph.D. 7. Energy Regulation. Co-written by John Ratey, M.D. and Nicole Kinney, D.P.T. 8. What to Track. 9. Where to Begin. Epilogue. About the Center for Discovery. Appendices.

Editorial Reviews

Autism and the Stress Effect is a welcome book that distills much of the information about the internal noise of stress, pain or perhaps the chemical effects of a terrible diet and delivers a useful and digestible guide for our autism community to use to improve the care and nurturing of our children.

Timothy Buie MD