Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety: A Guide to Successful Stress Management | Date: 28 April 2011, 03:55
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Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety: A Guide to Successful Stress Management
By Nick Dubin
* Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
* Number Of Pages: 222
* Publication Date: 2009-03-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 184310895X
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781843108955
Product Description:
Many people suffer from feelings of stress and anxiety in their everyday lives. For people with Asperger Syndrome (AS), this stress can be particularly difficult to manage. On a daily basis people with AS must fit into a world that seems totally foreign to them and this can increase feelings of alienation and anxiety, making life's challenges especially hard to cope with.The first book on anxiety written specifically for adults with Asperger Syndrome, this book offers practical advice on how individuals with AS can manage their anxiety more effectively. As a person with AS who has struggled with feelings of anxiety and learnt how to overcome them, Nick Dubin shares his own tried and tested solutions along with up-to-date research on stress management for individuals with AS, including a chapter on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Dubin explores the key problem areas that can lead to anxiety for people with AS such as lack of social skills, difficulties establishing romantic relationships and uncertainty about employment."Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety" provides real solutions to a common problem and is essential reading for anyone with AS who has trouble managing stress. The book will also be of interest to family members, teachers and other professionals working with individuals with AS.
Summary: A contrary view
Rating: 2
I've just finished reading this, and though I don't write many reviews on Amazon, I feel a need to contrast all of the positive and glowing reviews on here with my own experience, which is summed up by a feeling of vague disappointment.
This book is mainly composed of brief reinterpretations of a few currently in vogue psychological theories, though the ideas and applications are not very thoroughly described, and the reader would be better served by going to the original sources.
Also, this book is very strongly based in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and if you do not feel that is something that is very effective for you, then you will probably feel a lot of friction between yourself and the text. I myself have been through an infatuation with CBT, but I've come to realize that it just isn't effective for me, and I am afraid that the very strong emphasis that the author encourages the reader to place on 'rationality' and 'objectivity' can drive a person further from their emotional self, when the target readership is already prone to emotional trouble.
This review isn't meant to slam the author in any way, and as he's still relatively young I'm sure that more weighty and significant books could well be in his future. I just wouldn't encourage people to get their hopes up before reading this one.
Summary: Read about Asperger Syndrome from someone who's been there
Rating: 4
It took a lot of courage for Nick Dubin to write this book and I like the fact that he researched Asperger Syndrome since he was diagnosed with it himself. He deals with the symptoms (which can range from unpredicabilty to hypersensity to even perfectionism) and offers advice on how to deal with it (these come at the end of each chapter as "action points"). He shows how to deal with it in school, the workplace, dating and relationships. He discusses cognitive behavior theory and even gives advice on getting a psychotherapist. He also interviews his parents in order to show how others close to someone with AS can better cope with it.
Summary: Useful and compact
Rating: 5
I found "Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety" useful. As someone with Asperger Syndrome, I found much of the advice helpful, particularly in its focus on cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT). Every "Aspie" is different, so not everyone with Asperger Syndrome will necessarily be able to relate to all of the phenomena described in the book. I would recommend this book to anyone with Asperger Syndrome or anyone who cares about someone who has it. It will help alleviate a lot of needless anxiety.
Summary: Quite possibly one of the best books I have read on AS
Rating: 5
From all the books I have read on Asperger Syndrome, ( and there have been many!) this has to
be the best, by far.
Nick Dubin takes us deep into the core of what it is like to have AS, but more than this, he offers
possible solutions to the problem of overwhelming anxiety. It not only makes an interesting and
informative read, because of its wealth of anecdotal information - but I believe it is the first of its
kind to offer real hope to people struggling to live with AS.
A do-it-yourself psychotherapy book - it offers real solutions, promotes acceptance of AS
and at the same time empowers the reader to think positively about the benefits of having this
enigmatic developmental 'difference'.
A must-have book for anyone with AS or interested in learning more about AS.
Summary: Helpful book
Rating: 5
This book is well-written and has tips that are helpful even for people without Asperger's Syndrome. It's definitely a plus that the author is writing about the subject from a first-hand perspective and doesn't offer blithe platitudes. Recommended!
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