Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism

1. Treating Autistic Children at Home: A London Based Programme

   • Patricia Howlin, Pamela Yates

   Pages 307-322

2. The REBECKA-Project: A Short Summary

   • Lena Andersson

   Pages 323-328

3. Habilitation for Children with Autism: A Swedish Example

   • Christopher Gillberg

   Pages 329-345

4. Steps Towards the Organization of Services for Autistic Children and Their Families: The Responsibility of Child Psychiatry

   • Michael Bohman, Inga Lill Bohman, Eva Sjöholm-Lif

   Pages 347-362

5. State-of-the-Art Programming in Massachusetts: A Brief Description of the May Institute

   • Stephen C. Luce, Walter P. Christian

   Pages 363-374

6. Autism: Specific Problems of Adolescence

   • Christopher Gillberg, Helen Schaumann

   Pages 375-382

7. Pharmacotherapy of Adolescent Problems

   • Magda Campbell, Richard Perry, Richard P. Malone

   Pages 383-403

8. Educational Issues in Adolescence

   • Borgny Rusten

   Pages 405-411

9. Psychotherapeutical Help in Adolescence

   • Henrik Pelling

   Pages 413-418

10. Autistic Adults

    • Lorna Wing

    Pages 419-432

11. Addendum: Is the Primary Lesion in Autism Related to the Locus Coeruleus?

    • Annica B. Dahlström

    Pages 433-440

12. Autism: Diagnosis and Treatment. The State of the Art, May 1989

    • Lena Andersson, Michael Bohman, Magda Campbell, Mary Coleman, Uta Frith, Christopher Gillberg et al.

    Pages 441-442

13. Back Matter

    Pages 443-450

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In 1987, The Swedish Medical Research Council's Group for Evaluation of Medical Technology approached me on the subject of organizing a conference on Autism - Diagnosis and Treatment. The original idea for this conference had come from a Stockholm politician, Leni Bjorklund, who had felt that, at least in Sweden, autism appeared to be an area in which conflicting views on etiology and treatment had led to children and parents not always receiving adequate help. Professors Agne Larsson, MD, Tore Schersten, MD and Bjorn Smedby, MD in particular showed a keen interest and it was decided to hold a State-of-the-Art-Conference on autism in Gothenburg. The State-of-the-Art-Conference on Autism -Diagnosis and Treatment was held in Gothenburg May 8 -10, 1989. A panel of international experts was selected because of outstanding research or clinical activity in the field and in order to represent a wide variety of professional and theoretical approaches ranging from epidemiology, neurobiology and cognitive psychology to psychiatry, neurology, education, behavioural treatment and psychoanalysis. A group of professional observers involved in the field of autism was chosen so as to cover Sweden in a representative fashion. This group consisted of administrators, child psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, pediatricians, nurses and teachers.

• Evaluation
• Psychotherapeut
• autism
• diagnosis
• epidemiology
• etiology
• neurobiology
• neurology
• psychiatry
• psychoanalysis
• psychology

• University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden

  Christopher Gillberg

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