Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2^nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2024)

The second edition of this book examines the numerous research and practice advances with regard to adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Expert contributors offer cogent reviews of complex issues, from education to employment, leisure activities to illegal behaviors, mental health issues to medical health concerns. The volume explores the latest findings in key areas, such as psychosocial and residential treatments, social skills programs, epidemiology, the impact of ASD on families. The book focuses on areas of research and practice that require improved models of assessment, current data, new interventions, and increased support services.

Key areas of coverage include:

• Transition from high school to adulthood for adolescents and young adults with ASD.
• Innovative programming to support college students with ASD.
• Romantic relationships, sexuality and ASD.
• Treatment of mental health comorbidities.
• Assessment and treatment planning in adults with ASD.
• The range of outcomes and challenges in middle and later life for individuals with autism.

The second edition of Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders is a must-have reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other practitioners in clinical child, school, and developmental psychology, psychiatry, social work, rehabilitation medicine/therapy, special education, and general practice/family medicine.

Fred R. Volkmar M.D., is the Irving B. Harris Professor Emeritus of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine and the Dorothy Goodwin Family Chair of Special Education at Southern Connecticut State University. An international authority on Asperger’s disorder and autism, Dr. Volkmar was the primary author of the DSM-IV autism and pervasive developmental disorders section. He has authored several hundred scientific papers and has co-edited numerous books, including a book written specifically for parents – A Practical Guide to Autism - now in its 2^nd edition as well as forthcoming books on evidence based treatments and a new edition of the Handbook of Autism. He has served as associate editor of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and the American Journal of Psychiatry. He also served as co-chairperson of the autism/MR committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. From 2007 to 2023, he was editor of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and, more recently, of the Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Although now emeritus at Yale, Dr. Volkmar remains active as the Director of the Autism Center of Excellence at Southern Connecticut State University.

Brian Reichow, Ph.D., BCBA-D, is Associate Director of the University of Connecticut Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service and an Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences at UConn Health. His current research interests include the translation of research to practice, the use of systematic review methods and meta-analytic methods to identify evidence-based practices, and applied research involving young children with or at risk of developing disabilities and their families. He has been a technical advisor for the World Health Organizatio