CBCT for Parents of Children With Autism

Completed at Week 1. Initial meditation exercises will be described and practiced to train attention skills (on breath) and create mental stability.

Completed at Week 2. Exercises to develop mindfulness will continue in order to promote mental stability and clarity.

Completed at Week 3: Techniques to analyze mental processes are introduced.

Completed at Week 4. Further analysis of mental processes.

Completed at Week 5. A reflection of all the things that bring us well-being are provided by or dependent upon other beings is encouraged.

Completed at Week 6. The following concepts are presented and carefully considered: (1) cooperation and solidarity is essential for our survival and flourishing, as we are all extremely vulnerable and need each other; (2) hate and selfishness only cause suffering to others and ourselves and can only be prevented by cultivating sincere affection for others.

Completed at Week 7. Participants are invited to deepen their reflection on the reasons for gratitude, empathy, and affection for others, and see how they lead to feelings of compassion, or the wish for others to be free from suffering.

Completed at Week 8. The strategies used until this point will be reviewed in order to move from the wish for others to be free of suffering, toward the sense that we want to and must take steps to relieve their suffering.

20 minute session completed weekly after the Cognitive Training Session