I’ve been reading a lot about therapies and autism. I know there is strong indication that ABA, in the extremes, could be regarded as emotional mistreatment for autistic people.
I have been trying to find information about CBT applied to autistic children and adolescents, and have mostly come across neutral or positive articles and opinions. Granted, most of those are in publications that share similar views of ABA.
Is there a general consensus or impression on the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in the treatment of social issues (addiction, social isolation, …) on autistic children and adolescents?
I would appreciate any insight and/or links to articles, opinions, studies, etc.
Thanks!
Cognitive Behavior Therapy is like an impacted, aching colon. It hurts, and all the books claim you can pass it all quickly, but the more you push, the more it hurts.
But then I may just be in the (alleged) 20% failure rate.
My experience is CBT treats everything like an addiction or cope. You give up the bad habit and experience the feels and address them.
But we don’t smoke / drink / fap to snails drinking cappuccino / play WoW for 96 hour intervals just for fun. We’re invaribly doing it because not doing the thing is riskier to our well being. Which is easy to do if the thing keeps us from taking on a suicide-inducing career. (Observe Captain John Yossarian trying to keep his liver fever because not doing so means flying bombing missions.) If your doing CBT because your boss / family / therapist wants you to get better so you can go back to working in the toxic mines, it’s probably not going to help.