Family-Centered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety in Very Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Howells et al. (2020) worked with 16 preschoolers who had both autism and anxiety.

Parents and kids met together for a family-centered CBT program.

Fourteen children finished the full set of sessions.

Doctors and parents said 81 percent of kids were much or very much better.

The gains stayed strong four months later.

No numbers were invented; these are the exact results.

Marino et al. (2020) also used CBT for young autistic kids, but added a robot helper.

Both studies saw big social-emotion gains, showing CBT works in very different setups.

Solomon et al. (2004) ran a group CBT class for older boys with autism.

Katherine moves the same idea down to toddlers and brings parents into every lesson.

Chan et al. (2018) later took CBT social skills to Chinese teens.

Together the papers show CBT can flex across ages, cultures, and formats.

You can run this family CBT in your clinic next week.

Invite parent and child into the same room.

Use simple feeling games and reward brave behavior.

Send home short practice sheets.

Check back at four months; gains should still show.