Coping with Parenting When Your Child is Neurodivergent: Emotional Regulation for the Whole Family - Paperback

by Ellie Atkins (Author)

Combining the author's experience as a clinical psychologist and lived experience of parenting neurodivergent children, Coping with Parenting Neurodivergent Children draws from a range of therapeutic techniques and psychological theory to propose a compassion-based approach.

Author Biography

Dr Ellie Atkins is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who works with children, young people and families both within the NHS and in private practice. In the NHS she has a senior role working to develop psychologically informed and compassionate care across 27 London hospitals. She is also the former chair of the children, young people and families network of the association of clinical psychologists (ACP-UK). Ellie is also parent to two brilliant children, one of which is diagnosed autistic and the other who is dyslexic and dyspraxic. Parenting them has been the biggest challenge and the most wonderful experience she has ever had.