Relationship Development Intervention

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As Relationship Development Intervention (RDI short) refers to a method for the treatment of autism . It was developed by Steven Gutstein in 2001 and 2002. The development of healthy children is used as a model to help autistic children catch up on missed developmental steps. The focus should be on enjoying shared experiences, with the assumption that interpersonal relationships are motivating. However, since autistic children do not get the appropriate joy from relationships in the beginning, attempts are made to achieve the goal gradually.

The RDI consists of 6 levels of difficulty, each of which is divided into 4 steps:

  • Level 1 (Novice): Here the child should learn to put the adult in the center of his attention.
  • Level 2 (Apprentice): The children should learn to take responsibility for shaping relationships together and should enjoy variations in the relationship.
  • Level 3 (Challenger): This is where contact with peers should be encouraged. The children should develop a sense of togetherness and experience that they can achieve more together than alone.
  • Level 4 (Voyager): Older children or adolescents should learn that there are no absolute truths, but that there are different perspectives. They should learn to use their imagination and recognize that the personal point of view is just as important as the objectively perceptible world.
  • Level 5 (Explorer): The older children or adolescents should learn skills for perspective and empathy . The inner and not directly visible world of ideas, interests, convictions and emotional reactions should become more important.
  • Level 6 (partner): The ability to enter into lifelong relationships that are characterized by trust and personal closeness should be acquired.

Effectiveness studies

There is an efficacy study from 2007 that was able to prove the effectiveness of RDI, but there was no control group.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Nadine Trefzger: Everything extraordinary: Autism spectrum disorders and support with the multimodal model . Books on Demand, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8423-9286-1 , pp. 331 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Steven E. Gutstein, Rachelle K. Sheely: Relationship Development Intervention with Young Children: Social and Emotional Development Activities for Asperger Syndrome, Autism, PDD, and NDL . Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002, ISBN 978-1-84310-714-9 , pp. 25–26 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ SE Gutstein, AF Burgess, K. Montfort: Evaluation of the relationship development intervention program. In: Autism . tape 11 , no. 5 , 2007, p. 397-411 , doi : 10.1177 / 1362361307079603 , PMID 17942454 ( free PDF ).