Autism: CBT

Question 1

AO1

Answer 1

Reduces anxiety
Learn life long skills
Altering thought process
Challenges faulty thinking using evidential disputing
1:1 with therapist
Tackle recognising emotions and abstract thoughts
Distinguish between thoughts, beliefs and behaviours
Repetition and visual cues are used eg using a picture of a thermometer to rate anxiety (easier to relate and is more useful tool then a scale)
‘social coaching’
Monitoring skills

Question 2

+AO3

Answer 2

Individually based (more useful and effective)
Teaches life long skills (effective)
Empowering as the person is in control
(less social control then ABA)

Question 3

+sofronoff (2005)

Answer 3

Children experience less anxiety after CBT
Essessed using parental self-report
Child was able to find strategies to handle stress
Effectiveness improves with parental involvement

Question 4

+Wood (2009)

Answer 4

78.5% improvement in anxiety after 16 sessions

3 months on children continued to improve (8.7% children in control group waiting for treatment)

Question 5

-AO3

Answer 5

Difficulty with verbal and introspective nature of therapy
Costly and time consuming
Designed to reduce anxiety so can’t treat all behaviours