“I Met Someone Like Me!”: Autistic Adolescents and Their Parents’ Experience of the KONTAKT® Social Skills Group TrainingShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Journal of autism and developmental disorders, ISSN 0162-3257, E-ISSN 1573-3432, Vol. 52, p. 1458-1477Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This study captured the experiences of 35 autistic adolescents and their parents after completing a 16-session variant of social skills group training KONTAKT® (ACTRN12617001117303). Semi-structured interviews explored participants' and relatives' perceptions of KONTAKT® and associated social outcomes. Adolescents were classified as either high (HR, n = 23) or low (LR, n = 12) responders based on the primary outcome effects during the previous trial. Thematic analysis revealed that both HR and LR participants their parents were satisfied with KONTAKT®, noting consistent patterns of improvement in adolescents' social understanding, communication, relationships, and empowerment, although positive reports were more frequent among HR than LR groups. This study enhances the understanding of the impact of SSGT, which is key in improving their content, principles, and administration.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2022. Vol. 52, p. 1458-1477
Keywords [en]
Adolescents, Autism, Intervention, Lived experience, Social skills, Thematic analysis
National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52525DOI: 10.1007/s10803-021-05045-1ISI: 000646471400001PubMedID: 33942186Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85105462519Local ID: ;intsam;1556844OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-52525DiVA, id: diva2:1556844
2021-05-242021-05-242022-04-08Bibliographically approved