Social Skills Training for Young Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

Gantman, Alexander; Kapp, Steven K.; Orenski, Kaely; Laugeson, Elizabeth A.

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“…The quality of these studies was generally higher than studies evaluating other interventions and majority of PEERS studies reviewed observed improvements in social interaction, social skills knowledge and friendship quality. Furthermore, Yoo et al (2014) and Gantman et al (2012) found significant improvements in mental health outcomes, suggesting that the effects of SST transferred to wider psychological factors. This highlights the important relationship between social skills and mental health (White et al 2014), and the valuable role that SST can play in improving these factors.…”

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“…Improvements in social skills knowledge, as measured by the Test of Adolescent Social Skills Knowledge (TASSK; Laugeson and Frankel 2006) or the Test of Young Adult Social Skills Knowledge (TYASSK; Gantman et al 2012), were found in all six studies. This suggests that PEERS is successful in improving the social skills knowledge of people with ASD.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…PEERS involves 12-14 weekly sessions, with each session lasting 90 min and typically includes a parent or caregiver. Four studies evaluating PEERS used an RCT design (Laugeson et al 2009;Gantman et al 2012;Schohl et al 2014;Yoo et al 2014), and each of these included a wait-list control group. One study employed a quasi-experimental pre-post design in which participants were not randomly assigned to their conditions and there was no control group ).…”

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“…They found reductions in maternal anxiety and the depressive symptoms of participants. Gantman et al (2012) assessed loneliness, observing a significant improvement.…”

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“…The use of behavioural, in vivo measures may have improved the ecological and construct validity of these studies, something which was acknowledged by Gantman et al (2012) and Schohl et al (2014) and addressed by Yoo et al (2014) who used the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (Lord et al 2008) to observe social interaction, communication and play.…”

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The Effectiveness of Social Skills Training Groups for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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A u t i s m s p e c t r u m d i s o r d e r ( A S D ) i s characterised by social difficulties that can have a negative impact on an individual's psychological and social wellbeing. To date, reviews of social skills training groups have mainly focussed on children, rather than adolescents and adults. This review aimed to critically evaluate studies published in the past 20 years that had used group-based social skills training to improve the social skills of adults and/or adolescents with ASD. Thirteen studies were identified, and group-based social skills training was generally effective at improving social skills, with some studies observing transfer effects to improvements in wider psychological wellbeing. Future research should focus on comparing different social skills training protocols in real-world clinical settings.

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“…They found reductions in maternal anxiety and the depressive symptoms of participants. Gantman et al (2012) assessed loneliness, observing a significant improvement.…”

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Patterns of Nonsocial and Social Cognitive Functioning in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder

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IMPORTANCE Many studies have investigated impairments in cognitive domains in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Yet, to date, a comprehensive overview on the patterns of cognitive functioning is lacking.OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of nonsocial and social cognitive functioning in various domains in adults with ASD, allowing for comparison of the severity of deficits between different domains. DATA SOURCES A literature search performed in an academic medical setting was conducted using PubMed, PsycINFO, Embase, and Medline databases with the combination of the following free-text and Medical Subject Headings where applicable: [cogniti* OR neurocogniti* OR neuropsycholog* OR executive function* OR IQ OR intelligence quotient OR social cognition OR emotion perception OR affect perception OR emotion recognition OR attribution OR ToM OR mentalising OR mentalizing OR prosody OR social knowledge OR mind reading OR social cue OR social judgment] AND [autis* OR ASD OR Asperger OR Asperger's OR PDD OR pervasive developmental disorder]. The search was further limited to studies published between 1980 (first inclusion of autism diagnosis in the DSM-III) and July 2018.STUDY SELECTION Studies included were published as a primary peer-reviewed research article in English, included individuals with ASD 16 years or older, and assessed at least 1 domain of neurocognitive functioning or social cognition using standard measures.DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS Of 9892 articles identified and screened, 75 met the inclusion criteria for the systematic review and meta-analysis.MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Hedges g effect sizes were computed, and random-effects models were used for all analyses. Moderators of between-study variability in effect sizes were assessed using meta-regressions. RESULTSThe systematic review and meta-analysis included 75 studies, with a combined sample of 3361 individuals with ASD (mean [SD] age, 32.0 [9.3] years; 75.9% male) and 5344 neurotypical adults (mean [SD] age, 32.3 [9.1] years; 70.1% male). Adults with ASD showed large impairments in theory of mind (g = −1.09; 95% CI, −1.25 to −0.92; number of studies = 39) and emotion perception and processing (g = −0.80; 95% CI, −1.04 to −0.55; n = 18), followed by medium impairments in processing speed (g = −0.61; 95% CI, −0.83 to −0.38; n = 21) and verbal learning and memory (g = −0.55; 95% CI, −0.86 to −0.25; n = 12). The least altered cognitive domains were attention and vigilance (g = −0.30; 95% CI, −0.81 to 0.21; n = 5) and working memory (g = −0.23; 95% CI, −0.47 to 0.01; n = 19). Meta-regressions confirmed robustness of the results. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCEResults of this systematic review and meta-analysis suggest that adults with ASD show impairments in social cognitive domains and in specific nonsocial cognitive domains. These findings contribute to the understanding of the patterns of cognitive functioning in adults with ASD and may assist in the identification of targets for cognitive interventions.

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Interventions based on the Theory of Mind cognitive model for autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

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Social Skills Training for Young Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

Cited by 229 publications

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The Effectiveness of Social Skills Training Groups for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Effectiveness of Social Skills Training Groups for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Patterns of Nonsocial and Social Cognitive Functioning in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Interventions based on the Theory of Mind cognitive model for autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

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