Cognitive Behavioral Intervention
Learners with ASD often struggle with understanding their emotions, thoughts, behaviours, as well as how they are all connected.
Cognitive behavioural intervention is used to teach learners with autism strategies to change negative emotions or thoughts from escalating.
Content:
✓ What is Cognitive Behavioral Intervention CBI
✓ CBI is an evidence-based practice for children and youth with autism spectrum disorder from 6 to 22 years old.
✓ It's based on principle that thinking controls external behaviour
✓ Teach learners new skills and new ways of thinking that can lead to changes in their behaviour and actions
✓ Why Use?
• CBI found to be effective in improving many cognitive and behavioural skills (social functioning, coping skills, and emotional well-being).
• CBI can be used to teach new cognitive and/or behavioural skills that were never learned, teach compensatory strategies for cognitive deficits that cannot be changed and/or teach strategies to increase coping and/or decrease mental health symptoms in order to increase emotional well-being
✓ Outcomes
• The evidence – base for CBI supports the use of this practice to address: Social, Communication, Behaviour Cognitive, Adaptive, Mental Skills
✓ Steps for implementing this EBP:
1- Planning:
How to determine if a learner has pre-requisite skills
Establish the need for a FBA Functional Behaviour Assessment
Conduct assessment of needs and skills
Choose or create the intervention
Determine if training and supervision is required for you to deliver this intervention
Develop a session plan: determine delivery format, meeting place, schedule, format structure, design an individualised programme
Prepare materials
Determine reinforcers
2- Using this EBP:
Implementation checklist
Implement the intervention as planned
Support generalisation of target skills
3- Monitoring the effectiveness of this EBP:
Collect data on learner's use of target skills
Determine next steps
