#i'm really going to tear into these studies and explore the hypocrisy of combining these two therapy types

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I. already kind of regret choosing to write a huge paper about play therapy as an alternative to ABA. almost all of the research I have found into play therapy treatment has presented it as something that should be provided in addition to ABA for supposed behavioral benefits, which is fucking asinine. the number one goal of child-centered play therapy is to cultivate an environment of self acceptance, and ABA is completely antithetical to that. if I have to read one more fucking article that talks about how play therapy did or didn't have an impact on the amount of eye-contact a child made at home as if anyone should give a shit about that I'm going to kill us all with hammers

#chatter #don't get me wrong though i have a LOT of material for a paper #i'm really going to tear into these studies and explore the hypocrisy of combining these two therapy types #& present child-centered play therapy as something that should be explored bc of the fact that children with autism are often ostracized #and deserve a therapeutic environment in which they can cultivate a healthy sense of self #and at least half of this paper is going to tackle medical abuse and the autism industrial complex #i'm still excited to go off i just. ggghdg i hate psychiatry so much i hate academia i hate medical research fuck all of this