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Counselling for Asperger Couples

By Barrie Thompson
Foreword by Steve Bagnall

Counselling for Asperger couples by Barrie ThompsonAsperger counselling for couples is the first book to provide a complete model for counselling couples where one partner has Asperger Syndrome (AS). The book provides details of the seven different stages of the model and includes anecdotal evidence from clients who have used it. The book offers valuable advice on improving communication and cooperation.

Based on considerable experience, this book will be invaluable for counsellors treating couples where one partner has Asperger Syndrome. Its insight into the world of AS will also benefit such partners who may not have access to counselling, but still wish to use for themselves the many and varied strategies it contains. Parents with children with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), as well as teachers and other professionals working in this field can also benefit from it.

Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
116, Pentonville Road
London N1 9JB
ISBN 978 1 843 10 544 2

Counselling couples where a partner has Asperger Syndrome

By Barrie Thompson
(in Good Autism Practice)

Good Autism Practice book coverAs well as an author in his own right, Barrie Thompson has been a guest writer for Good Autism Practice, a journal set up to meet the needs of parents and practitioners living or working with individuals of all ages who have an autism spectrum condition.

The article was written as a consequence of Barrie completing the research that underpinned his Masters degree and was developed around his theoretical perspectives, the reviewing of a considerable amount of already existing literature on the subject of autism, his methodology for undertaking the research, and the eventual generation of a new and unique model for counselling couples where one of the partners had Asperger Syndrome.

As a personal reflection of his research, Barrie quoted the following:
‘Like other people, those with Asperger Syndrome are often creative, intelligent, interesting, productive and learned in countless ways. They are often kind, warm, gracious, loving, funny and enjoyable.’   (Willey, (1999: 121)

Published in partnership with The University of Birmingham, Autism West Midlands and Autism Cymru.
Distributed by the British Institute of Learning Disabilities
97 Vincent Drive
Birmingham
B15 2SQ
ISSN 1466-2973

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