Free eBooks
Free e-books for parents, professionals and the lay public to download focusing on Child and adolescent behaviour problems, Autism, Aspergers Syndrome, ADHD and Creativity. Click on the individual links below to download any or all of these books.Â
Autism – Paradigms, Recent Research and Clinical Applications
This book opens with a discussion of neurodiversity and an elaboration of the diagnosis of autism. It then examines factors correlating with autism, including sex bias, month of birth, migration and impact of infant feeding. The next section is on the impact of autism. The neurobiology and genetic section deals with epigenetics and intracellular pathways associated with etiology. The development and behaviour section deals with proprioceptive profiles and joint attention in autism. The final section focuses on interventions including mindfulness, animal assisted activity, social/cultural perspective on autism intervention and physical activity. The book is relevant to all professionals and researchers working with persons with autism, including psychiatrists/psychologists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, teachers, nurses and care workers. Editor: Fitzgerald M. (2017) Publisher: InTech Open Access ISBN: 978-953-51-3080-2
Autism Spectrum Disorder – Recent Advances
Edited by Michael Fitzgerald , ISBN 978-953-51-2037-7, 376 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published April 02, 2015 under CC BY 3.0 license DOI: 10.5772/58507. This book starts with a new sub category of Autism Criminal Autistic Psychopathy and school shootings. It focuses on a number of interventions, including speech and language pathology, speech and language assessment instruments, occupational therapy, improving functional language development in autism with natural gestures, communication boards etc as well as helping people with autism using the pictorial support, training of concepts of significant others, theory of mind, social concepts and a conceptual model for empowering families of children with autism cross culturally.
Editor: Fitzgerald M. (2015)
Publisher: InTech Open Access
ISBN: 978-953-51-2037-7
Recent Advances in Autism Spectrum Disorders Volume II
Editor Michael Fitzgerald (2013) ISBN978/953/51/1022/4 Publisher: INTECHÂ Â Download Contributors: Experts from various parts of the world. (1) Sensory, medical and community based interventions. (2) Cortical modularity and electrophysiology. (3) Forensic issues in autism. (4) The built environment and autism. (5) Stigma. (6) Evolutionary aspects of autism. (7) Toileting problems and sensory problems. (8) Recovery model of treatment. (9) Autism and architecture.
Editor: Fitzgerald M. (2013)
Publisher: InTech Open Access
ISBN 978-953-51-1022-4
Recent advances in Autism Spectrum Disorders Volume I
Editor: Michael Fitzgerald (2013) ISBN978985511021/7 (789 pages) Publisher INTECH. Contents: This up to the minute volume on Autism Spectrum Disorders from expert contributors from various parts of the world focuses on:- (1) Early diagnosis and prevalence. (2) Issues in relation to brain/gut access. (3) Vaccines. (4) Immune Dysregulation. (5) Valproaic Acid. (6) MNESIC imbalance. (7) Genetic and mouse models. (8) Environmental factors. (9) A number of chapters on treatment Interventions (10) Foetal alcohol syndrome (11) Autistic Creativity.
Pressure Points on Irish Families Irish Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Co-Author: Fitzgerald M., Lawlor M (2010)
E-Book (Downloadable from website and google site)
Pressure Points on Irish Families Irish Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Available free download.
From Child to Adult – a Longitudinal Study of Irish Children and their Families
From Child to Adult – a Longitudinal Study of Irish Children and their Families   Available free download.
Irish Families Under Stress – Volume 7 (Focuses on History, Psychotherapy, Diabetes, Substance Misuse, Sudden Infant Death, Child Anxieties)
Editor: Fitzgerald M. (2003)
Publisher: South Western Area Health Board: Dublin
ISBN 0948 562 706
Contents: Focuses on History, Psychotherapy, Diabetes, Substance Misuse, Sudden Infant Death, Child Anxieties).
Irish Families Under Stress – Volume 6. (Focuses on a Prevalence and Psychosocial Study of Autism in Dublin)
Co-Editor: Fitzgerald M., Matthews P., Birkbeck G., O’Connor J. (1996)
Publisher: E.H.B.: Dublin
ISBN 0948 562 34X
(Focuses on a Prevalence and Psychosocial Study of Autism in Dublin).
Irish Families Under Stress – Volume 5. (Audit and evaluation of a child psychiatry clinic)
Editor: Fitzgerald M., Moukaddem S., Barry M. (1996)
Publisher: E.H.B.: Dublin
ISBN 0948 562 897
Audit and evaluation of a child psychiatry clinic.
Irish Families Under Stress – Volume 4. (Focuses on Childhood Depression, Behaviour Problems, Delinquency, Eating Problems, Adolescent Problems, Parental Mental Stress)
Editor : Fitzgerald M. (1995)
Publisher: E.H.B.: Dublin
ISBN 0948 562 099
(Focuses on Childhood Depression, Behaviour Problems, Delinquency, Eating Problems, Adolescent Problems, Parental Mental Stress.
Irish Families Under Stress – Volume 3. (Focuses on Blood Lead, Behaviour Problems, Adolescent Problems, Psychotherapy. Comparison Ireland with Malaysia)
Editor: Fitzgerald M. (1991)
Publisher: E.H.B.: Dublin
ISBN 0948 562 064
(Focuses on Blood Lead, Behaviour Problems, Adolescent Problems, Psychotherapy. Comparison Ireland with Malaysia).
Irish Families Under Stress – Volume 2. (Focuses on Education and behaviour Problems in over 2000 Irish Children. It is one of the largest ever carried out in Ireland)
Co-Editor: Jeffers A., Fitzgerald M. (1991)
Publisher: E.H.B.: Dublin
ISBN 0948 562 056
(Focuses on Education and behaviour Problems in over 2000 Irish Children. It is one of the largest ever carried out in Ireland).
Irish Families Under Stress – Volume 1. (Focuses on Behaviour Problems in Children including Traveller Children and Factors Associated with Behaviour Problems in Children)
Editor: Fitzgerald M. (1991)
Publisher: E.H.B.: Dublin
ISBN: 0948 562 048
(Focuses on Behaviour Problems in Children including Traveller Children and Factors Associated with Behaviour Problems in Children).
Pathways to Child Hospitalization
Co-Author: Mc Gee H., Fitzgerald M. (1988)
Publisher: Health Promotion Unit, Eastern Health Board: Dublin
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