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 Autism: Challenges and Solutions:      Autism is such a complex disorder and individuals with autism have varying challenges they have to overcome. One of these challenges that is commonly seen in those with autism is anxiety. Roughly 40% of those on the spectrum also struggle with anxiety as well (Rudy, 2023). According to Autism Tasmania (2009), anxiety can produce itself as obsessive compulsive behavior, meltdowns, controlling behaviors, and more. A solution that is option is cognitive behavioral therapy(CBT). This can be effective because allowing these individuals the opportunity to talk and walk them through their issues can help them overcome their anxieties (Rudy, 2023).Another solution to overcoming anxiety would be to teach techniques to help them manage and cope with it. In a personal experience with the autistic clients I work with would be to attempt to get them to start counting. These clients are nonverbal and high behavioral often high sensory events cause them to disp

 Autism: Psychological Concepts, Theories, and Models:      Overtime theories, concepts, and models regarding autism have come and gone. Immersive research and extreme work has played a huge part in discovering what is known as autism today. With this research, theories we thought furthered understanding of autism have been found untrue and not pertaining to autism but other mental illnesses being diagnosed as autism. Nonetheless all of these theories, concepts, and models have all had a hand in defining what autism is seen as today.       The Dimetric Mind Theory is the idea that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is on one end of the spectrum, and on the complete other end of this spectrum is psychosis (Psychology Today, n.d.). Between these two concepts are things that intertwine with these two completely different topics. In between these two poles are common thinking types that can go from mechanistic to mentalistic (Psychology Today, n.d.). This theory has further given light to how

Autism: Navigating adulthood with autism Phil Martin:  Phil Martin is a 28 year old adult living on the autism spectrum. Things were not always easy for him and oftentimes he has struggled to get to where he is now. His diagnosis came after repeating the ninth grade four times. Although he was having panic attacks and struggling throughout his childhood school years, it never really was a huge issue until high school. School became very overwhelming and very quickly. His excitement for the new chapter slowly faded and he hated that he had to attend school. It became that often Phil would not even attend school. He would hop on the bus and ride it to the train station. Where he would spend from the time school started until the time it ended riding trains, because they were his comfort. After his 4th time essentially failing, the school counselor wanted to meet with Phil to figure out why he was not passing. Phil was then tested for every developmental disorder there was. After weeks of

 Autism:     Introduction:            Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is defined as a neurological disorder that could  potentially  be linked to our genetics. It is thought that it is passed down through our parents, however, the cause of autism is still unknown (Santangelo & Tsatsanis, 2012).   Usually,  ASD is categorized as having complications with things such as social interaction, having little to no interest in things, and behaviors that are considered repetitive (American Psychiatric Association, 2021). Autism can be detected in a child before they become the age of one, but  symptoms  usually become  more  consistent between 2 and 3 years of age (American Psychiatric Association, 2021). Autism is a lifelong challenge and it carries the weight  of having no cure.  Symptoms:      According to the National  Institute  of Mental Health (2023), common  symptoms of ASD are separated into two categories: social communication/ interaction and restrictive/ repetitive behaviors.  So

 Autism: Historical and Contemporary Overview:   Historically autism, as it is known today, was not used as an official diagnosis until the 20th century. (Greydanus &Toledo-Pereyra. 2012) However, autism existed before it was given a name. The first edition of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) put autism as a subcategory of schizophrenia. (American Psychiatric Association. 1952) The very first time the term 'autism' was used was by a psychiatrist named Paul Eugen Bleuler. When Bleuler used the term autism, he was using it to describe schizophrenic patients when they would become distant and withdrawn from those around them. (Greydanus &Toledo-Pereyra. 2012) Originally it was thought that 'autism' was just a way to describe certain symptoms of schizophrenia. In the DSM-5, autism spectrum disorder is split into two separate and unique categories. These include impaired social communication and/ or interaction and restriction and/ or repetitive behavior. (Ame