The Development and Evaluation of a Social Skills
Group Training for Australian Adolescents on the
Autism Spectrum

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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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Main Author:	Afsharnejad, Bahareh
Format:	Thesis
Published:	Curtin University 2019
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83828

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