Computer- Assisted Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Anxiety Disorders in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Receiving concurrent psychotherapy, social skills training, or behavioral interventions (e.g., applied behavior analysis). Families will have the option of discontinuing such services to enroll in the study.
• •2. New Treatments: Initiation of an antidepressant within 10 weeks before study enrollment or an antipsychotic 6 weeks before study enrollment. No new alternative medications, nutritionals or therapeutic diets within 8 weeks of study enrollment.
• •3. Established Treatment changes: Any change in established psychotropic medication (e.g., antidepressants, anxiolytics) within 6 weeks before study enrollment, or any change in alternative medications that might have behavioral effects within 4 weeks prior to the study baseline assessment.
• •4. (a) Current clinically significant suicidality or (b) individuals who have engaged in suicidal behaviors within 6 months will be excluded and referred for appropriate clinical intervention.
• •5. Lifetime DSM-IV bipolar, schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders; or Substance abuse in past 6 months.
• •6. Unwillingness of parents to make the commitment to accompany their child for multiple study visits.
• •7. Presence of a significant and/or unstable medical illness which might lead to hospitalization during the study or if the computer-assisted CBT is not a good avenue of treatment for the child.