Participants
Participants will be selected from public elementary schools around the state. The sample of the study will consist of around a 100 Latino children diagnosed with Autism. The participants must be first or second generation Latino Americans. The eligibility of the diagnosis will be assessed with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (DSM-5; APA, 2013); and the Autism Spectrum Rating Scale (ASRS; Goldstein & Naglieri, 2009). The severity of the Autism symptoms will not determine eligibility of the participants. The age range of the participants will be 6-12 years old.
Treatment Personnel
The experimental group will have five licensed mental health therapist with training on Adlerian therapy. The training on …show more content…
Latino children with Autism are often diagnosed at an older age (Magaña et al., 2013). For children over 5 years old, psychotherapy is recommended (Smith & Iadarola, 2015). Adlerian therapy can be considered as a psychotherapy approach that can be used with Latino children with Autism. Adlerian therapy has not being used as an evidence base practice with Autism because of the cognitive requirement that the approach has (Huber & Zivalich, 2004). However, if the study obtains the expected results, Adlerian therapy can prove to be an applicable approach to Autism without cognition in participants being an impediment to use the approach. Adlerian therapy can be modified to match the participants’ cognitive level. Also, Adlerian therapy can provide a culturally competent approach to Latino clients who face barriers in the health care system (Magaña et al., 2013). The approach that is mostly researched and applied as an evidence based treatment for Autism is the Lovaas’ model (Smith & Iadarola, 2015). But, the Lovaas’ model mainly benefits fifty percent of the participants, and its effectiveness is assessed on cognitive improvement. With the Adlerian therapy, the focus of the outcome would benefit mainly the participant’s social skills; the main struggle of children with autism. Also, Adlerian therapy would have a better effectiveness rate if the expected results occur. Moreover, if after the training of the caregivers and the parents improvement occurs, future research can focus on the effectiveness of applying such trainings,
Participants will be selected from public elementary schools around the state. The sample of the study will consist of around a 100 Latino children diagnosed with Autism. The participants must be first or second generation Latino Americans. The eligibility of the diagnosis will be assessed with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (DSM-5; APA, 2013); and the Autism Spectrum Rating Scale (ASRS; Goldstein & Naglieri, 2009). The severity of the Autism symptoms will not determine eligibility of the participants. The age range of the participants will be 6-12 years old.
Treatment Personnel
The experimental group will have five licensed mental health therapist with training on Adlerian therapy. The training on …show more content…
Latino children with Autism are often diagnosed at an older age (Magaña et al., 2013). For children over 5 years old, psychotherapy is recommended (Smith & Iadarola, 2015). Adlerian therapy can be considered as a psychotherapy approach that can be used with Latino children with Autism. Adlerian therapy has not being used as an evidence base practice with Autism because of the cognitive requirement that the approach has (Huber & Zivalich, 2004). However, if the study obtains the expected results, Adlerian therapy can prove to be an applicable approach to Autism without cognition in participants being an impediment to use the approach. Adlerian therapy can be modified to match the participants’ cognitive level. Also, Adlerian therapy can provide a culturally competent approach to Latino clients who face barriers in the health care system (Magaña et al., 2013). The approach that is mostly researched and applied as an evidence based treatment for Autism is the Lovaas’ model (Smith & Iadarola, 2015). But, the Lovaas’ model mainly benefits fifty percent of the participants, and its effectiveness is assessed on cognitive improvement. With the Adlerian therapy, the focus of the outcome would benefit mainly the participant’s social skills; the main struggle of children with autism. Also, Adlerian therapy would have a better effectiveness rate if the expected results occur. Moreover, if after the training of the caregivers and the parents improvement occurs, future research can focus on the effectiveness of applying such trainings,