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Historically, psychiatry has not been kind to mothers. Early (and mostly wrong) ideas about what ‘caused’ emotional/behavioral difficulties and psychiatric disorders made it easy for clinicians to blame parents for all childhood conditions. Autism is a classic example. In the 1940s Leo Kanner, one of the most influential child psychiatrists of the time, stated that [...]
Continue Reading →The research on ABA is consistent: ABA is a highly effective intervention for autism. What do I mean by that? That on average, kids with autism exposed to ABA will improve more than those who do not receive this intervention. However, the key word here is “on average”. The research is also very consistent in [...]
Continue Reading →A family-based psychoeducational weight loss treatment for teens appears to be more effective than traditional family therapy.
Psychologists often work on the premise that any therapy is better than no therapy. Usually this tenet applies, in that most research shows that for most conditions therapy is better than no therapy. But unfortunately there are [...]
Continue Reading →As we move towards the implementation of “day-themes” in Child-Psych.org, we decided to dedicate every Wednesday to Autism. We are doing this as a way to thank the loyal readers of Translating Autism who followed us on our journey to Child-Psych. In our first “Autism Wednesday” column, we review a study that examines the effectiveness [...]
Continue Reading →Friday’s Column “Focus on Language” by Nicole Hess.
I get this question ALL the time. In fact I just gave a talk to a group of preschool teachers and this question came up: Can teaching sign language to my baby delay his talking? Let’s look at what the research tells us about using signs [...]
Continue Reading →In an effort to identify the predictors of therapists’ burnout, researchers examined the factors that affect the perceived self-efficacy and work well-being of therapists providing intense behavior analysis services for children with autism.
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