The Second Edition examines the diagnostic overlap and continuing confusion between the DSM-5 diagnostic categories of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), which include autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and trauma and stressor related disorders (TSRDs). Specifically, the book addresses challenges to diagnostic considerations resulting from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the exponential increase of information available to the public about trauma, neurodiversity, and autism-affirming services. It describes the ways in which these conditions are similar in that children with developmental disorders are particularly vulnerable to traumatic events and all have pervasive effects on the brain and development. Chapters provide a wealth of effective clinical, family, and school-based interventions developed from established studies and important new findings. In addition, chapters use illustrative case studies to survey assessment challenges in the healthcare climate and consider alternative routes for improving correct diagnoses, identify appropriate interventions, and refer proper targeted, evidence-based treatment and services. The book offers recommendations for needs-based service access, including a more widespread use and acceptance of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) framework.

Key areas of coverage include:

• Trauma and neurodevelopmental disorders from a public health perspective.
• The neurobiological contributors to trauma and stressor related disorders (TSRDs) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) and their diagnosis in children with a history of trauma.
• Interventions for trauma and stressor-related disorders in preschool-aged children.
• Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis and care in a cultural context.
• Considerations in ASD identification and treatment across the lifespan and for diverse populations (race, gender, international).

Trauma, Autism, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Second Edition, is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and related professionals in developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, public health, social work, pediatrics, and special education.

Jason M. Fogler, M.A., Ph.D., is a Senior Staff Psychologist, the Director of the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental & related Disabilities (LEND) Program at Boston Children's Hospital's Division of Developmental Medicine, and the current President of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.  At Boston Children’s, he is the Attending Psychologist on a multidisciplinary team devoted to the complex developmental and mental health issues of children in foster care and various phases of adoption, both domestically and internationally. After graduating from Boston University's Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, he completed clinical training and a postdoctoral clinical research fellowship in a joint appointment at the VA Boston Healthcare System's National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Boston Medical Center’s Center for Medical and Refugee Trauma. During this period, he served as training faculty for one of the first National Child Traumatic Stress Network's SAMHSA-funded Learning Collaboratives. Dr. Fogler is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard Medical School, has taught nationally and internationally on the topics of trauma-focused treatment and assessment, and published articles on comprehensive treatment for traumatized children and clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse. He is one of the editors of Trauma Therapy in Context: The Science & Craft of Evidence Based Practice (APA Publications: 2012) and is currently writing a book on the assessment of co-occurring traumatic stress and attention-deficit disorders with colleagues in the Buckinghamshire, UK-based Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

Melissa Marquardt, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and owner of a private practice in Beaverton, Oregon. She completed her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Oregon. Dr. Marquardt attended her clinical internship at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, specializing in child and adolescent psychology with a particular focus on early childhood. She has significant clinical experience working with children with a variety of complex clinical presentations, including differential diagnosis of autism and early childhood trauma. Dr. Marquardt currently provides diagnostic assessment and therapy services to children and families in a private practice setting.

Randall Phelps, M.D., Ph.D., is a Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics at the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center, Institute on Development and Disability, Oregon Health and Science University. He is the founder and program director of Oregon’s only Developmental Behavioral Pediatric fellowship. He completed M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Washington, Residency in Pediatrics at The University of Michigan, and Fellowship in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Phelps attends on interdisciplinary teams to provide diagnostic assessments and care to children with developmental disabilities and/or behavioral conditions throughout the state of Oregon . He created an outreach clinic to provide developmental-behavioral pediatric consultation to the Relief Nursery, a therapeutic preschool program for children at high risk of trauma. Dr. Phelps has been a co-Investigator, with the Relief Nursery, on several demonstration grants to improve care coordination for children using multiple community resources. Dr. Phelps has given lectures and workshops regionally, nationally, and internationally, on differential diagnosis of autism, including the diagnostic confusion between autism and trauma and stressor-related disorders.