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Parent-Child Reciprocity and the Effectiveness of PEERS

NCT03354923 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2019-02-26

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Summary

Early adolescence marks a significant development in teens' social abilities, shifting from play to conversation-based activities, and having stronger and more intimate friendships. Parents contribute to this shift by practicing reciprocal social interaction with their teens.

For teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) this shift in their peers' social abilities extends their characteristic social deficits even further. Social skills deficits in individuals with ASD are associated with poor adaptive functioning and increased psychopathology. Parents play a pivotal role in caring for and tutoring their children with ASD into adulthood. However, the effect parent-teen reciprocity has on the social skills of adolescents with ASD has not been tested. Furthermore, whereas parent-child reciprocity predicted intervention outcome in young children with ASD, no study has examined this effect in teens with ASD.

The proposed study aims to test these questions using the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS), an evidence-based parent-assisted social skills training program for teens with ASD.

Conditions

  • Social Skills
  • Parent-Child Relational Problem

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

PEERS intervention

PEERS is a 14-week manualized social skills treatment program that targets the friendship skills of adolescents with ASD. In the Israeli adaptation of PEERS, two meeting were extended. An adolescents group will be held concurrently with the parents group in different rooms. Both groups will begin the session with homework review, followed by a didactic social skills lesson, utilizing the teaching methods of modeling and role-playing. In order to practice the newly learned social skills,a behavioral rehearsal interaction will be assigned in the adolescents group. Finally,Socialization homework assignments designed to address further mastery and generalization of newly learned skills within the natural social environment will be assigned too.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Irit Mor, MD · Association for Children at Risk

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2018-08-31
Completion
2019-08-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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