I am authoring a chapter on stress and autism in a booked aimed at psychiatrist on stress. If there is any one with interest and expertise in this area, I would like to invite to join me in this?
I have been working with adolescents with ASD with dance movement therapy in Dutch NHS. My focus has been on the question which movement experiences contribute to stress-reduction in adolescents with ASD. The aim has been to promote autonomous stress-regulation in adolescents with ASD.
That seems a rather broad question. To my mind the majority if not all 'meltdowns' are stress-responses. So to the extent that interventions are aimed at preventing meltdowns (which I believe a majority are) they can all be seen as forms of stress management.
In other words: a response to your question could well be a list of most or all autism therapies, trainings and what have you.
This book reviews literature up to the mid-2000's: Stress and Coping in Autism by M. Grace Baron, June Groden , Gerald Groden , Lewis P. Lipsitt , Oxford University Press; 1 edition (Aug. 16 2006)
I am a parent of a child with autism and also researching autism, there are many factors that contribute to stress in a child with autism. your topic is broad but if you need any help do contact me
Dear Satheesh, looking again at your question and thinking about the more objective side of stress and autism, I typed in 'cortisol AND autism' in google which yielded a staggering 404.000 hits. One was an article of science-blogger Paul Whiteley (http://questioning-answers.blogspot.nl/2012/12/autism-stress-and-cortisol.html) which might be a little dated (2012), but which shows that this case is another example that it's hard to separate stress or any other autism-related matter from all the others...
Whiteley is a fun guy to follow anyway...(on twitter
: @PaulWhiteleyPhD, where you can find me too: @autitecture)