TY - CHAP AU - Tomislav Benjak AU - Gorka Vuletić Mavrinac AU - Ivana Pavić Šimetin AU - Branko Kolarić ED - Mohammad-Reza Mohammadi Y1 - 2011-09-15 PY - 2011 T1 - A Comparative Study on Self Perceived Health and Quality of Life of Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Parents of Non Disabled Children in Croatia N2 - The aim of the book is to serve for clinical, practical, basic and scholarly practices. In twentyfive chapters it covers the most important topics related to Autism Spectrum Disorders in the efficient way and aims to be useful for health professionals in training or clinicians seeking an update. Different people with autism can have very different symptoms. Autism is considered to be a "spectrum" disorder, a group of disorders with similar features. Some people may experience merely mild disturbances, while the others have very serious symptoms. This book is aimed to be used as a textbook for child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship training and will serve as a reference for practicing psychologists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, pediatricians, child neurologists, nurses, social workers and family physicians. A free access to the full-text electronic version of the book via Intech reading platform at http://www.intechweb.org is a great bonus. BT - A Comprehensive Book on Autism Spectrum Disorders SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/17368 DO - 10.5772/17368 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -