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Building Social Connections in Autism: Health, Happiness, and Community

Editor : William Singletary, Editor : Timothy Rice, Editor : Catherine Lord, Editor : Anne Alvarez

Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction
1.1. Optimal Developmental Processes and Those in the Autism Profile

Section 2: Loneliness’ Adverse Subjective Outcomes and Pathways to Repair
2.1. Overview of Loneliness’ Adverse Subjective Outcomes and Pathways to Repair
2.2. Loneliness Within and Beyond the Autism Profile
2.3. Loneliness as a Risk Factor for Suicide Among Autistic Individuals
2.4. Healthcare Delivery and the Autism Profile
2.5. Attachment Representations in the Face of Autism Spectrum Disorder
2.6. The Double Empathy Problem and Social Connections
2.7. The Emergent Way of Being: Autism, Adaptation, and Belonging
2.8. Introduction to Social Competency
2.9. Social Health and Autism: Pathways to Connection on the Spectrum

Section 3: Treatments that Build Caring Connections
3.1. Introduction to Treatments that Build Caring Connections
3.2. When an Autism Spectrum Profile is not Autism: Discovering Relational Intentionality
3.3. Families and Relationship-Based Development Across our Lifespan
3.4. Helping Toddlers at Risk of Autism to Communicate with their Parents: An Audited Case Series of a Psychoanalytically and Observationally Informed Intervention
3.5. Explicating the “Moving Along Process”
3.6. Females with Autism Profiles: Theoretical Perspectives on Developmental Variability
3.7. Could There be Meaning in Repetitive, Restrictive, even Stereotypic Behaviors? Evidence of the Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a 3-year-old boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder
3.8. Making Contact on the Spectrum
3.9. Sensory Sensitivity: Defensive Avoidance or Autistic Spectrum Disorder
3.10. Mentalization Based Therapy for Autistic Children: A Relational and Developmental Model
3.11. When Medication Has a Role: A Neurologist’s Perspective on Supporting — Not Changing — the Autistic Individual

Section Four: Conclusion
4.1. Concluding Reflections