Using a CBT Approach to Teach Social Skills to Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Social Challenges: The PEERS® Method

Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 84-97

  Laugeson, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Park, Mi N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The Help Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Autism spectrum disorder; Cognitive behavior therapy; PEERS; Social skills training; Teens

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893186679     PISSN: 08949085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10942-014-0181-8     Document Type: Article

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