Creative Expressive Activities and Asperger's Syndrome: Social and Emotional Skills and Positive Life Goals for Adolescents and Young Adults

Contents

• 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. References.
• Appendix 1: VIA classification of character strengths.
• Appendix 2: Music list. Index.