A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions That Work for Autistic People: Diversity-Affirming Evidence-Based Practice (Critical Specialties in Treating Autism and other Behavioral Challenges) 2nd Edition

A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions that Work for Autistic People: Diversity Affirming Evidence-Based Practice, second edition, provides a socially valid, culturally sensitive, and person-centered resource to aid practitioners in guiding the selection of effective interventions. By providing multiple illustrative examples, practitioners will learn to use their professional judgment to integrate the best available evidence with client values and context. The second edition includes new chapters on diversity affirmation and cultural adaptations of interventions, quality of life, self-determination, guided decision-making, and ethics as foundational skills for identifying effective, socially valid interventions that are delivered with compassion and assent/consent.Presents a detailed description of the diversity-affirming evidence-based practice decision-making modelOffers a framework that helps practitioners integrate the best available evidence with client values and contextDemonstrates how to culturally adapt interventions and center decision-making on the clientGuides practitioners through the process of assessing intervention outcomes that fit with client values and contextual variablesProvides numerous concrete examples involving Autistic people holding many intersecting identities Read more