Group Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidences of Effectiveness for Social Skills Group

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Having a child with an autism spectrum disorder can have a profound effect on family life. Since thesedisorders affect the ability of children to have relationships with others, they may have a hard time bonding withother family members. In addition, a great amount of stress can be placed on family members, particularly thosewho are involved in daily care of the child. Often one of the parents has to give up their job to take care of thechild and help with all the therapies, and because of the difficulty and cost of finding qualified help. Mostchildren with autism require many expensive therapies. Many of them are not covered by insurance, or arelimited. Many families end up taking out loans or a second mortgage on their home to pay for all the therapies.
In order to minimize the financial burden for parents and to maximize the treatment effectiveness for the child,practitioners must keep following two components in preparing for intervention as evidence-based practicesuggests: 1) Practitioners make systematic use of clinically relevant research to select accurate and precisediagnostic tests, identify prognostic markers, and assess the potential effectiveness and safety of different kinds oftreatments; 2) Practitioners are expected to draw from multiple sources for information to inform their treatmentdecisions. To ensure the intervention for a child with Autism Spectrum is based on the best evidence fromwell-conducted research, fourteen articles published in U.S journals were carefully selected and reviewed based onthe criteria. The results of review were summarized in a table to inform the practitioners and parents of whattype of intervention model and skills/techniques were proven to be the most effective.

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