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I haven't said this in years, but please would you help with my (CBT) homework?

felineaut

I am participating in CBT to help me learn new ways to manage myself in challenging situations. My therapist/practitioner/tutor suggested we each seek answers to questions about a hypothetical scenario. I hope it's ok to post this here, I wondered if there's anyone with a few minutes to spare who wouldn't mind sharing their thoughts.

Many thanks for reading and many more if you are able to answer - completely understand that everyone's busy. I am happy to update when we've compared answers to see how mental health professionals differ from any answers I receive if anyone has any interest.

The Situation:

(From the perspective of a car driver, imagined or real)

If you were stopped in a parking space to drop someone off and someone pulled up alongside and became confrontational about you being there, got out of their car and started shouting and taking your registration number:

1) How would you feel? 

2) What would you do?

3) Is it unreasonable to feel helpless and upset?

4) How would you 'come down' from that?

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    electra said:

    TA and CBT can perhaps help if adapted to autistic people but straight out of the packet they aren't much use to most of us.

    The starting point scenarios for the discussions can be the same but the sessions will progress differently with autistic people. The central point though, that people benefit from being challenged or provoked into trying to respond to situations with more thought than reflex, applies equally to autistic and non-autistic people. Both the therapist, and the patient should make allowance and change tack in the light of the subjects autism diagnosis but the autism does not destroy the patients cognitive faculties. 

    Electra, now that you know that you are autistic, do you think that a session where both you and the therapist knew you were on the spectrum would be more successful than the previous sessions?

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    electra said:

    TA and CBT can perhaps help if adapted to autistic people but straight out of the packet they aren't much use to most of us.

    The starting point scenarios for the discussions can be the same but the sessions will progress differently with autistic people. The central point though, that people benefit from being challenged or provoked into trying to respond to situations with more thought than reflex, applies equally to autistic and non-autistic people. Both the therapist, and the patient should make allowance and change tack in the light of the subjects autism diagnosis but the autism does not destroy the patients cognitive faculties. 

    Electra, now that you know that you are autistic, do you think that a session where both you and the therapist knew you were on the spectrum would be more successful than the previous sessions?

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