Group intervention to promote social skills in school-age children with pervasive developmental disorders: Reconsidering efficacy

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1163-1172

  Koenig, Kathleen ^a   De Los Reyes, Andres ^b   Cicchetti, Domenic ^a   Scahill, Lawrence ^a   Klin, Ami ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Evidence based treatment; Group therapy; Pervasive developmental disorders; Range of changes; Social skills training

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPREHENSION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEACHING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349596955     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-009-0728-1     Document Type: Review

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