Counseling with an emphasis in Health Psychology: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Autism spectrum Children
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https://doi.org/10.31580/jrp.v2i3.1722Keywords:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Counseling, Health Psychology, Autism Spectrum DisorderAbstract
Cognitive behavioral therapy is based on the concept that one’s thoughts, feelings, physical actions, and sensations are interlinked. It also works on the basis that undesirable opinions and feelings can potentially catch an individual in a vicious cycle and that changing negative patterns can help an individual improve the way they feel about various things. Using cognitive behavioral therapy will allow the client to self-explore and identify what factors in life are causing problems or specific concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy can help the children with Autism spectrum disorder to overcome the social and communication barriers if the levels of anxiety that they are feeling have dropped. Social skills and managing challenging behaviors such as anxiety and emotional regulation are also important and will be useful for children with Autism spectrum disorder to improve language/speech use, social communication/interactions, and symptom severity.
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O'Leary, K. D., & Wilson, G. T. (1975). Behavior therapy: Application and outcome. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Schopler, E., Van Bourgondien, M. E., Wellman, G. J., & Love, S. R. (2010). Childhood autism rating scale-CARS2: MANUAL (2nd ed.). Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services.
Sharf, R. S. (2016). Theories of psychotherapy and counseling. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Swinkles, H. N., Dietz, C., van Daalen, E., Kerkhof, H. G. M., van Engeland, H., & Buitelaar, J. K. (2006).
Ting, V., & Weiss, J. A. (2017). Emotion regulation and parent co-regulation in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(3), 680–689. doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-3009-9
Wenzel, A., Dobson, K. S., & Hays, P. A. (2016). Cognitive restructuring of automatic thoughts. In Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and strategies (pp. 87–107). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. https://doi-org.libproxy.scu.edu/10.1037/14936-005
Wong, P. (1997). Meaning centered counseling: A cognitive behavioral approach to logotherapy.
The International Forum of Logotherapy, 20 (85–97).
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2020-12-21
