Re:cognitve therapy and mental retardation

If you really are thinking of CT as a treatment for mental retardation, you probably are barking up the wrong tree. I don't know of anyone who thinks that CT can affect the individual's IQ.

If you are thinking of using CT to treat anxiety, depression, etc. in mentally retarded individuals, this has some potential but it requires significant adjustment in the treatment approach. With mentally retarded individuals we'd use a much more behavioral approach and would use self-instructional training rather that "rational responses" since verbal interventions often are less effective with retarded individuals and intervention approaches which require considerable abstract thinking usually don't work well.

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