Coaching People with Asperger's Syndrome

by Bill Goodyear

Overview

This book arises from a lifetime's practical experience of work with people with Asperger's syndrome and autism. People with Asperger's syndrome easily drop through the net and fall into the wrong services - sometimes staying at home, depending on their families, sometimes falling into criminal justice or mental health services. Others, of course, fall into employment. Those in between, and there are many, benefit from the coaching approach developed by Bill Goodyear, which is described in this book. The book is crammed with practical tips, real life stories and new thinking. So often research results arrive from highly specialised work - this book attempts to synthesise a range of new learning from a number of fields and present a hopeful view of the condition - there are many entry points to use to create the possibility of forward motion and development.Touching lightly on some specific and recurring problems, the book unpicks our current understanding of the condition and describes in detail how to use coaching to empower and enable rather than to control and direct.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367105624
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/14/2019
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface , Introduction , All About Asperger's Syndrome , Asperger's syndrome—overview , What is Asperger's and why is it a problem? , How does it arise? , What do we currently know about this condition? , Current support is poor , We don't know what these people are capable of , We know that bad experiences generate negative psychology , Families are central , All About Coaching , Coaching , Practical coaching , Coaching process , Boundaries and behaviour , Coaching people forward , Coaching out of crisis , Specific Issues , Social skills , Addiction and habit , Anger management , Romance , Money , Family bonds: parents' experiences , Special interests , Appendices , Information sheet , Coaching fundamentals , Coaching tips

Editorial Reviews

"I very much enjoyed the richness of your book. Your own humanity makes the humanity of the people you write about the more real and believable and the sense of community between "Aspies" and others - that would be created by more enlightened non-medical treatment - the more attainable."

Business Consultant - Colin Adamson

"What an intersting book you have written! You are very fluent in your subject."

Journalist - Sally Lancaster