Assessment of the Prerequisite Skills for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Children with and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders
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The purpose of this study was to assess the cognitive skills of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) thought to be necessary for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Forty children with ASD and forty age-matched typically developing children between the ages of 7-12 years participated. Groups were comparable with regard to nonverbal IQ, but children with ASD had significantly lower verbal IQ. Children completed three CBT-related tasks requiring emotion recognition, discrimination among thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and cognitive mediation. With the exception of the emotion recognition task, children with ASD performed comparably to typically developing children and with a high rate of accuracy.
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The predominant psychosocial approach for co-occurring anxiety and mood disturbance is cognitive-behavioral therapy.
“Drawing from the extant research on treatment of co-occurring problems, such as anxiety and mood disturbance, the predominant psychosocial approach is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).39–41”
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- Authors
- Lickel, A., MacLean, W. E., Blakeley-Smith, A., & Hepburn, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Wyoming (US)
- University of Colorado Anschutz (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lickel, Athena
- Venue
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Published
- 2011-08-05
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 992-1000
- ISSN
- 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3432
- PMC
- PMC4426203
- OpenAlex
- W2009949354
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 42
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- FWCI
- 1.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P01HD035468, L30 HD048361, U19HD035468)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, cognitive behavioral therapy, prerequisite skills, children, emotion recognition, cognitive mediation, verbal IQ, nonverbal intelligence, typically developing children
- MeSH terms
- Child, Child Development, Child Development Disorders, Pervasive, Cognition, Emotions, Female, Humans, Intelligence, Male, Social Perception, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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