Multimodal anxiety and social skills intervention user manual guide

The results showed that the social skills of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be improved and developed through several interventions such as the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS), Multimodal Anxiety and Social Skills Intervention (MASSI), Peer Network Intervention, and CBT-CSCA. fileslib. Randomized controlled trial: Multimodal Anxiety and Social Skill Intervention for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder Article Information Authors: White, S. W.; Ollendick, T.; Albano, A. M.; Oswald, D.; Johnson, C.; Southam-Gerow, M. A.; Kim, I.; Scahill, L. Year: 2013 Publication: Journal of autism and developmental disorders Volume: 43 Introduction. Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a marked and persistent fear of scrutiny in social or performance situations (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013).Individuals who experience social distress across a broad range of social settings 1 have severe social and general anxiety, social inhibition, fear of negative evaluation, avoidance, fearfulness, and self-consciousness and
This bi-directional model is at the crux of the treatment program we developed and evaluated in the present trial, the Multimodal Anxiety and Social Skills Intervention (MASSI) program. Whatever the reason for the common co-occurrence of ASD and anxiety disorders, determining anxiety disorder diagnoses for children with ASD is complicated by language and cognitive delays present in many of these youth.
The 'Social Skills Intervention' was an 11-week program that covered topics (through a CBT framework) including communication strengths and difficulties, types of relationships, goal setting, conversation skills and emotional awareness of self and others.