Support for parents is an important part of treatment programs for children diagnosed with autism. Parent training programs have generally focused on prescribed goals in one-on-one training settings with measures directly related to the goals. Of interest here are the few studies that included collaborative goals, expanded measures, and group training. Benefits of such approaches include the establishment of natural communities of reinforcement and better understanding of the breadth of effects. The purpose of this study was to determine if a group coaching approach would be effective in changing a large range of parent and child skills. This experiment involved group sessions (presentations, discussion, video sharing, and problem solving) and three individual in-vivo coaching sessions. The intervention took place over the course of four weeks. Direct measures included a parent skills checklist and child target behaviors. Results indicated an overall improvement on most measures that maintained or improved at follow-up.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc177261 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Vaughn, Brittany M. L. |
| Contributors | Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla, Rosales-Ruiz, Jesus, Toussaint, Karen, Vaidya, Manish |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Vaughn, Brittany M. L., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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