COVER -- Creative Expressive Activities and Asperger's Syndrome: Social and Emotional Skills and Positive Life Goals for Adolescents and Young Adults -- Contents -- PREFACE -- Part I A Multidimensional Approach to Asperger's Syndrome -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What makes an adaptive, resilient, and happy person? -- 3 Defining Asperger's Syndrome and its impact -- Part II Creative Activities -- 4 Groups -- 5 Conceptual and cognitive processing: Semantic and pragmatic weaknesses -- 6 Self-awareness and self-related skills: Emotion, depression, anxiety, emotional self-regulation -- 7 Social difficulties and connecting with the world -- 8 Nuts and bolts of art techniques -- APPENDIX 1: VIA CLASSIFICATION OF CHARACTER STRENGTHS -- APPENDIX 2: MUSIC LIST -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.

Martinovich combines activities such as art making, drama, music, puppetry, yoga and photography with conventional cognitive behavioural interventions to support individuals with AS. The different activities complement and reinforce each other and are designed to address specific traits of the autism spectrum to aid skills development.

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