A new way to help kids with autism manage their emotions
Around 70 percent of kids with autism experience emotional challenges, including anxiety, depression, sadness and anger. And a promising new study from York University’s Faculty of Health has found that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can help them with emotional regulation.
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How to be friends with a child who has autismJonathan Weiss, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and CIHR Chair in Autism Spectrum Disorders Treatment and Care Research, led the research, which was published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Child Psychiatry. He says, ?We can use this same intervention to improve children’s skills more broadly?regardless of what emotional challenge they have; we can make them more resilient to many emotional and mental health issues.?
The study was conducted on 68 kids, aged 8 to 12 years of age, and their parents. Subjects were randomly assigned to two groups: one immediately began 10 CBT sessions and the other received treatment later. Researchers tracked how the kids? emotions and behaviour changed before and after the therapy.
A medical professional with no prior knowledge of the groups to which each child was assigned found that 74% of the kids receiving treatment improved, compa...
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