TY - BOOK ID - 19412420 TI - Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth : Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance PY - 2016 SN - 1137547960 1137547979 PB - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Cultural studies. KW - Health psychology. KW - Community psychology. KW - Community and Environmental Psychology. KW - Theatre and Performance Studies. KW - Cultural Studies. KW - Creativity and Arts Education. KW - Autism spectrum disorders. KW - Autism spectrum disorders KW - ASCs (Autism spectrum conditions) KW - ASDs (Autism spectrum disorders) KW - Autism spectrum conditions KW - Autistic spectrum disorders KW - Child development disorders, Pervasive KW - PDDs (Pervasive developmental disorders) KW - Pervasive child development disorders KW - Pervasive development disorders KW - Pervasive developmental disorders KW - Patients. KW - Social aspects KW - Study and teaching. KW - Developmental disabilities KW - Applied psychology. KW - Social work. KW - Psychology, clinical. KW - Theater. KW - Social Work. KW - Health Psychology. KW - Dramatics KW - Histrionics KW - Professional theater KW - Stage KW - Theatre KW - Performing arts KW - Acting KW - Actors KW - Benevolent institutions KW - Philanthropy KW - Relief stations (for the poor) KW - Social service agencies KW - Social welfare KW - Social work KW - Human services KW - Applied psychology KW - Psychagogy KW - Psychology, Practical KW - Social psychotechnics KW - Psychology KW - Environmental psychology. KW - Art education. KW - Applied theater. KW - Art KW - Art education KW - Education, Art KW - Art schools KW - Health psychology KW - Health psychology, Clinical KW - Psychology, Clinical health KW - Psychology, Health KW - Salutogenesis KW - Clinical psychology KW - Medicine and psychology KW - Cognitive ergonomics KW - Ecological psychology KW - Ecopsychology KW - Ecotherapy KW - Environmental quality KW - Environmental social sciences KW - Human factors science KW - Psychoeology KW - Psychotherapy KW - Ecological Systems Theory KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Social psychology KW - Analysis, interpretation, appreciation KW - Education KW - Psychological aspects KW - Social service KW - Theater KW - Social service. KW - Clinical health psychology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19412420 AB - This edited volume explores the roles of socially-channeled play and performance in the developmental trajectories of young people who fall on the autism spectrum. The contributors offer possibilities for channels of activity through which youth on the autism spectrum may find acceptance, affirmation, and kinship with others. “Positive social updraft” characterizes the social channels through which people of difference might be swept up into broader cultural currents such that they feel valued, appreciated, and empowered. A social updraft provides cultural meditational means that include people in a current headed “upward,” allowing people of atypical makeups to become fully involved in significant cultural activity that brings them a feeling of social belonging. ER -