The Development and Evaluation of a Social Skills Group Training for Australian Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum
Addressing a current lack of evidence-based interventions targeting the social skills of Australian autistic adolescents, this thesis undertook a holistic adolescent-centric approach in investigating the efficacy of a social skills group training, KONTAKT®. This thesis concluded that compared to an...
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| author | Afsharnejad, Bahareh |
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| description | Addressing a current lack of evidence-based interventions targeting the social skills of Australian autistic adolescents, this thesis undertook a holistic adolescent-centric approach in investigating the efficacy of a social skills group training, KONTAKT®. This thesis concluded that compared to an active control cooking group, explicit social skills group training was more efficacious in improving Australian autistic youth’s social outcomes. This thesis further highlighted that methodologically rigours research in a community-based setting is possible. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-838282023-06-08T00:59:42Z The Development and Evaluation of a Social Skills Group Training for Australian Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum Afsharnejad, Bahareh Addressing a current lack of evidence-based interventions targeting the social skills of Australian autistic adolescents, this thesis undertook a holistic adolescent-centric approach in investigating the efficacy of a social skills group training, KONTAKT®. This thesis concluded that compared to an active control cooking group, explicit social skills group training was more efficacious in improving Australian autistic youth’s social outcomes. This thesis further highlighted that methodologically rigours research in a community-based setting is possible. 2019 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83828 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Afsharnejad, Bahareh The Development and Evaluation of a Social Skills Group Training for Australian Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum |
| title | The Development and Evaluation of a Social Skills
Group Training for Australian Adolescents on the
Autism Spectrum |
| title_full | The Development and Evaluation of a Social Skills
Group Training for Australian Adolescents on the
Autism Spectrum |
| title_fullStr | The Development and Evaluation of a Social Skills
Group Training for Australian Adolescents on the
Autism Spectrum |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Development and Evaluation of a Social Skills
Group Training for Australian Adolescents on the
Autism Spectrum |
| title_short | The Development and Evaluation of a Social Skills
Group Training for Australian Adolescents on the
Autism Spectrum |
| title_sort | development and evaluation of a social skills
group training for australian adolescents on the
autism spectrum |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83828 |