1. Is there a typical autistic person?
2. Useful subjects to know about for a happy autistic life
3. Sensory stuff
4. Co-occurring conditions
5. Autism presentation in different groups
6. Autism myths
7. Autism no-nos
8. Strategies to help support an autistic young person
9. Autism at home
10. Autism in school
11. Autism in society
12. The future
13. Diagnosis
14. Post-diagnosis
15. Support
Intro to Readers; A Note to Parents and Caregivers; 1. Getting Started; 2. The Brain-Body Message System; 3. Danger Learning and Safety Behaviors; 4. False Alarms; 5. Where's the Evidence? 6. Thinking Mistakes; 7. Worries Love to Debate; 8. Shifting Your Attention; 9. Hanging Out with Worry; 10. Worry's Biggest Trick; 11. Breaking Free From Worry; 12. Jumping In; 13. Exposure; 14. Worry in Disguise; 15. What to Do When There Is Nothing to Do; 16. More on Exposure; 17. But I'm Still Scared!; 18. Putting It All Together;
1. Introduction. Pain is really strange. Acute versus chronic pain, definitions and some history of pain. Your brain's assessment of danger is essential to the pain experience. 2. Pain is Complex. Your brain often makes mistakes, chronic pain is a fault in the alarm system. 3. It Is Not About The Tissues. Sensitisation in the nervous and immune systems and how tissues heal in a few months. 4. How Do Nerves Work? Knowing how nerves work helps understand chronic pain. 5. There Is Something You Can Do To Change Your Pain Experience. Creativity, visualisation, movement, body awareness, and skillfull language are tools to change pain. 6. References are in footnotes in the book and in more detail on www.painisreallystrange.com.
Foreword - Benjamin Zephaniah. Introduction. Part One - Meditation. 1. What is meditation? 2. How to meditate. 3. The right approach. 4. Distractions. 5. Meditation in day-to-day life. Part Two - Letters. Extra Practices. End note. Prison terms explained. About the Prison Phoenix Trust.
Introduction: What is Personal Hygiene? 1. Looking Clean, Smelling Clean. 2. Changing Bad Hair Days into Good Hair Days. 3. Clean Teeth, Great Smiles. 4. Taming Dragon Breath. 5. Having a hand People Want to Shake. 6. There's Hair Everywhere! 7. Putting Your Best Foot Forward. 8. Face Up to Teenage Skin.
9. Good Bathroom Hygiene. Supplementary Material: Final Quiz, Activity Pages
1-10, See For Yourself Activities, Personal Stories, Personal Hygiene Worksheets and Checklist, Having a Plan.
Foreword. Brigid Proctor and Francesca Inskipp. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: starting with yourself. 2. Beginning to supervise. 3. Knowing your relationship style. 4. Attending to tasks and skills. 5. Shaping a supervision session: choices of focus. 6. Giving and getting feedback. 7. Supervising trainees. 8. Using creative methods. 9. Working with unconscious processes. 10. Putting ethics into practice. 11. Using communications technology. 12. Supervising people in different contexts and roles. 13. Exploring group supervision. 14. Supporting your development. 15. Ending and moving on. References. Index.