Treatment Issues with High-Functioning Adolescents and Adults with Autism
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Abstract
Following its identification by Leo Kanner in 1943, autism was viewed as an emotional handicap caused by inadequate mothering. Few questioned this assumption for several decades. This conception of autism led to many inappropriate interventions based on psychoanalytic principles. Among the most inappropriate and destructive of these were the group and individual therapeutic interventions directed toward these children and their families (Schopler & Mesibov, 1984). Many of the families that participated in these programs vividly remember them and their associated feelings of guilt and ineptitude.