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I would be super interested to hear more about the contraindications of CBT for autism-spectrum people. A quick search is only turning up sites that are pro-CBT

• mercer 9y ago
  Yeah, CBT is still the default approach, AFAIK, and perhaps for good reasons. I wish I had the article at hand, but as I recall the problem with CBT can be that it still focuses too much on the mind and thinking as a way to solve things, which can exacerbate the ASD tendency to, well, overthink in circles and get lost in (ineffective) rumination. I think the article argued that DBT could be better in those cases (perhaps because it's even more 'mindfulness/meditation' in nature??). But I've also heard/read that DBT is kind of the Vue.js to psychology's React.js, in that it's 'New And Improved' but not quite as well-tested.