A multi-component social skills intervention for children with Asperger syndrome: The Junior Detective Training Program

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 743-753

  Beaumont, Renae ^a   Sofronoff, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asperger syndrome; Social skills

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; BODY POSTURE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD REARING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FOLLOW UP; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEACHER;

ASPERGER SYNDROME; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EDUCATION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOKEN ECONOMY;

EID: 47249122563     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2008.01920.x     Document Type: Article

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