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Appropriate therapy

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My adult son has been to councillors who seem to listen only to him. He suffers greatly from depression but has a high functioning job and is well paid. He needs more direction from a therapist. It is very hard to find therapists who specialise in Aspergers. Many councillors list Aspergers as one of many conditions they treat but don't have any deep knowledge of it or know how to help people with the condition.  Can anyone suggest what type of therapy would be appropriate for an Aspergers adult with severe depression please? He lives in the Godalming area.

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    I'll agree with Deepthought that TA is a useful technique to help to learn some social skills. It isn't a therapy, as I understand it, but it is exactly the sort of thing that someone with autism would benefit from being aware of. I guess that a lot of non-autistic people would find a lot of TA obvious although I have seen a lot of workplace intreractions that dismally fail to get to the desirable Adult-Adult goal.

    For a person with depression and autism it may be possible for the person to achieve something by improving their people skills with TA as a part of that. If your skills are enhanced then one's self esteem should improve and that should help combat depression.

    The CBT/DBT approach would approach things on a different level. These therapies should challenge the mindset whereby people with autism are often too quick to categorise things as black or white, true or false, when the real world often has much vaguer and less categorical views of things. Being too categorical is a common pre-cursor to mental health issues. See essex-behavioural-therapy.co.uk/article.asp (This is a fairly random pick from Google, I have no connection with that website)

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    I'll agree with Deepthought that TA is a useful technique to help to learn some social skills. It isn't a therapy, as I understand it, but it is exactly the sort of thing that someone with autism would benefit from being aware of. I guess that a lot of non-autistic people would find a lot of TA obvious although I have seen a lot of workplace intreractions that dismally fail to get to the desirable Adult-Adult goal.

    For a person with depression and autism it may be possible for the person to achieve something by improving their people skills with TA as a part of that. If your skills are enhanced then one's self esteem should improve and that should help combat depression.

    The CBT/DBT approach would approach things on a different level. These therapies should challenge the mindset whereby people with autism are often too quick to categorise things as black or white, true or false, when the real world often has much vaguer and less categorical views of things. Being too categorical is a common pre-cursor to mental health issues. See essex-behavioural-therapy.co.uk/article.asp (This is a fairly random pick from Google, I have no connection with that website)

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