A Practical Guide to Finding Treatments That Work for People with Autism

A Practical Guide to Finding Treatments That Work for People with Autism provides a logical, culturally sensitive, and values-based resource to aid practitioners in making informed decisions on the most effective treatment for any given client at any given time.

By providing multiple illustrative examples, practitioners will learn to use their professional judgment to integrate the best available evidence with client values and context. This will increase the efficacy of autism treatments, with the goal of producing meaningful gains across a range of skills.

Presents a detailed description of the evidence-based practice of applied behavior analysis as it applies to ASDOffers a decision-making framework that helps clinicians integrate the best available evidence with client values and contextGuides practitioners through the process of assessing treatment outcomes that fit with client values and contextual variables Provides concrete examples for various age groups

Section I: Evidence-Based Practice: A Brief Overview

Section II: Best Available Evidence 1. Systematic Review 2. Other Sources of Evidence

Section III: Target, Stakeholder, and Leader Client Variables, Values, and Preferences 3. Client Health 4. Client Repertoire and Behavioral Cusps 5. Client Preferences 6. Quality of Life, Generalization, and Social Validity 7. Treatment Acceptability and Social Validity 8. Treatment Feasibility and Social Validity 9. Context Matters: Getting Systems to Adopt Treatments

Section IV: Professional Judgment 10. Initial Selection: Weighing and Integrating Information 11. Progress Monitoring 12. Determining the Next Step

Section V. Conclusions and Examples