A kinder ABA is a therapist driving you to the point of frustration, then offering to hold your hand

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40617-023-00833-w 

Good grief is all I can say. 

Adding the prefix of "Kind" to something does not automatically make anything automatically Kinder. As is peppering a paper with the word "Kind" to sublimely influence you that it must be kind. 

And a sample size of 4 autistics in the study makes this a valid method, how?

And what did this  "kind" translate to exactly. when a therapist drives you to the point of a tantrum in the first place, then offers to hold your hand, and saying "I can see you are frustrated."

Is this a new marketing strategy by the (massive-profits with no accountability) ABA industry to make even more profits of desperate families. 

Please don't joke around with studies trying to whitewash stuff. This is not helping.