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Hi everyone. Here is the link to the full judgement: http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/neary-judgment-09062011.pdf I really hope it will be useful for other families in the future caught in the same situation as us. Many thanks to Call me jaded for her support

As I've mentioned in a previous thread, the Local Authority are currently looking for a "provider" for Steven. This will almost certainly mean they will move Steven out of borough, into another residential placement. I am looking at a provider that can work with Steven, from his home base. There are two particular areas of input that would be useful: 1) Therapeutic work around the area of helping Steven cope with sudden noises (dogs barking, people having coughing fits) that at present really seem to attack his concentration and cause his mood to change. 2) People with "facial adornments" (e.g. glasses, hats, veils etc). Once again, I'd like some therapeutic input into how Steven can engage with any of the above, without wanting to remove the item. If anybody knows of any providers or services, preferably local, that can assist with this, I would be very very grateful.

I'm not so sure about that. I've been trying to find an old copy of the magazine you receive each month if you are a member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy. Each month, they have a case study and ask three different therapists from different models of therapy to describe how they would work with the client. It was over a year ago now and the case was an autistic man in his early thirties who had been experienecing problems in his relationships with women. Would you believe, none of the responses made any reference to his autism in their "treatment plan". If I can find the article I'll post it up here

As a psychotherapist, I would think it highly unlikely that it is CBT that is being offered as that is normally considered a short term intervention. However, there is a large school of though that believes that it is the most appropriate model of therapy for someone with ASD. I could imagine, if the client had been attending for 20 years, a humanistic model may be appropriate as the focus would be the client's ongoing personal development, which of course, is limitless. I do agree with the earlier post that psychoanalysis would probably not be helpful as the tendency to interpret through a filter of childhood trauma could be counter-productive. I have experienced this in supervision groups where a colleaue has stuck rigidly to her psychodynamic template without any regard for the clients ASD.