Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Looking at Treatment Planning Through a Different Lens
- Defining Best Practices
- Media Overload
- A New Way of Thinking about Autism Treatment
- Core Deficits of Autism.
- How the Book is Organized
- Why There is Confusion about EBP in Treating ASD
Chapter 2. What is Evidence Based Practice?
- What is So Important ?
- Common Errors in Evaluating Treatments
- How Then Can Treatments be Evaluated?
- History of Evidence Based Practice in Psychology
- Brief History of EBP as it Pertains to Autism
- Evolution and Expansion of EBP
- EBP as it Pertains to Autism
- Clinical Judgment
- Autism-Specific vs. Non-Specific Treatments
- The Evolution of Treatment Models and Terminology
- Client Voice in What to Treat and How to Treat
- What is Important to Study? What is Important to Treat?
- The Role Context in Treatment Selection:
- Positive and Negative Policy Implications of uses of EBP in Autism Treatments
- Conclusions and Recommendations
Chapter 3. The Individualized, Problem-Solving Treatment Process
- Our Beliefs and Biases
- The Role of Children’s Emotions
- The Challenge of Generalization
- Strengthening Social Connections
- Step 1. Gather Background Information
- Step 2. Identify the Problem
- Step 3. State the Hypothesis, Yours and Others’
- Step 4. Review Research
- Step 5. Design the Treatment Plan
- Step 6. Evaluate Effectiveness and Generate your own Evidence
- Step 7. Redesign the Plan as Needed
Chapter 4. Jamal: A Previously Happy Preschooler Disengages
- Step 1. Gather Background Information
- Step 2. Identify the Problem
- Step 3. State the Hypothesis, Yours and Others
- Step 4. Review Treatment Approaches
- Step 5. Designing the Treatment Plan
- Step 6. Evaluate Effectiveness and Generate Your own Evidence
- Step 7. Redesign the Plan as Needed
Chapter 5. Katherine: A Nine Year Old Learns to Cope with Hew Own Explosive Episodes
- Step 1. Gather Background Information
- Step 2. Identify the Problem
- Step 3. State the Hypothesis, Yours and Others:
- Step 4. Consider Treatment Approaches
- Step 5. Design the Treatment Plan
- Step 6. Evaluate Effectiveness and Generate Your own Evidence
Chapter 6. Brandon: Developmental Delays and OCD present a Big Challenge for a Non-verbal Preschooler
- Step 1. Gather Background Information
- Step 2. Identify the Problem
- Step 3. State the Working Hypothesis, Yours and Others’
- Step 4. Review Treatment Approaches
- Step 5. Design the Treatment Plan
- Step 6. Evaluate Effectiveness and Generate Your Own Evidence
- Step 7. Redesign the Plan as Needed
Chapter 7. Raphael: A Happy, Well-Behaved Six Year Old Becomes Increasingly Rigid
- Step 1. Gather Background Information
- Step 2. Identify the Problem
- Step 3. State the Hypothesis, Yours and Others’
- Step 4. Review Treatment Approaches
- Step 5. Design the Treatment Plan
- Step 6. Evaluate Effectiveness and Generate Your Own Evidence
- Step 7: Redesign the Plan as Needed
Chapter 8. Alex: Extreme Mood Dysregulation Interferes with School and Home Functioning for a Fourth Grader
- Step 1. Gather Background Information
- Step 2. Identify the Problem
- Step 3. State the Hypothesis, Yours and Others’
- Step 4. Review Treatment Approaches
- Step 5. Design the Treatment Plan
- Step 6. Evaluate Effectiveness and Generate Your Own Evidence
- Step 7. Redesign the Plan as Needed
Chapter 9. Emily: A Passive Teenager Begins to Learn Self-help Skills
- Step 1. Gather Background Information
- Coping with the Present - Worried about the Future
- Step 2. Identify the Problem:
- Step 3. State the Hypothesis, Yours’ and Others?
- Step 4: Review Treatment Approaches:
- Step 5. Design the Treatment Plan
- Step 6. Evaluate Effectiveness and Generate Your Own evidence
- Step 7. Redesign the Plan as Needed
Chapter 10. Chen A teenager with Aspergers hits bottom, but with help and determination, heads for college
- Step 1. Gather Background Information
- Step 2. Identify the problem
- Step 3. State the Hypothesis, Yours and Others’
- Step 4. Review Treatment Approaches
- Step 5. Design the Treatment Plan
- Step 6. Evaluate Effectiveness and Generate your own Evidence
- Step 7. Redesign the Plan as Needed
Chapter 11. Michael, a 10 year old whose behaviors are becoming more and aggressive and disruptive
- Step 1. Gather Background Information
- Step 2. Identify the Problem
- Step 3. State the Hypothesis, Yours and Others’
- Step 4. Review Research
- Step 5. Design the Treatment Plan
- Step 6. Evaluate Effectiveness and Generate your own Evidence
- Step 7. Redesign the Plan as Needed
Chapter 12: Jake: A five year old who has responded well to Floortime
- Step 1: Gather Background Information
- Step 2. Identify the Problem
- Step 3. State the Hypothesis, Yours and Others
- Step 4. Review Research
- Step 5. Design the Treatment Plan
- Step 6. Evaluate Effectiveness and Generate Your Own Evidence
Afterword
Appendix A: Autism Treatment Approaches
References