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Transforming Home Life CBT could be the key to helping autistic children engage more socially.
Sun Feb 02 2025
This: one group of kids got a special therapy called CBT, which helps people deal with problems by recognizing and changing thoughts and behaviors. Some were actively involvedat home. Families of these group who were having trouble with socializing and living their life in peacefully.
Now, here’s the interesting part. The researchers didn't just watch these kids in a lab or on the playground. They looked at them in their own homes. Are autism's solitary behaviors really that different in different environments?
This study involved 68 families, but only 29 of these families actually helped from comparing both pre and post treatment videos. Two main key things were looked at: how well the kids interacted with their environment and how they responded to their parents.
News alert: kid who got the CBT had a smaller side effect of social isolation trouble compared to the other group who received a similar treatment method bot not CBT. There was more to this work too—the researchers found that when parents became more responsive, the kids' solitary behaviors decreased spanning three decades , "the earliest studies go all the way back to 1997. " This just shows you that the concept of teaching kids to engage more isn't something new. Doesn't it make you wonder why it's not happening everywhere?
So, what does this all mean? Well, it suggests that CBT could be a game-changer for autistic kids socially engages better at home. These analyse the benefits of treating autism outside of controlled environments. But here's a question to ponder generally social skills of the kid aren't behaving the same way as kid in both clinical trials " only in some clinical trials, however, ". The study hints at the idea that autistic kids' behavior might be more than just a clinical laboratory scenario . This makes it to question do some kids get better at commuincating others personalities and and it is the CBT or others factor.
Doesn't this make you wonder
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