Counseling with an emphasis in Health Psychology: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Autism spectrum Children

Abstract

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.