Developing Problem Solving Skills Training Program and its Effectiveness on Emotion Regulation skills and Social Anxiety of Adolescents with High-Functioning Autism Disorder
The present research with the aim was to develop a problem solving skills training program and its effectiveness on emotion regulation skills and social anxiety of Adolescents with High-Functioning Autism Disorder.
The research was conducted in two parts, qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative part included the development and validation of the educational program, and the quantitative part included a semi-experimental method with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group with a 1-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the qualitative part included 28 specialists with a doctorate degree in the psychology of exceptional children in Tehran in 1401, 10 of whom were selected as samples in a targeted manner, and the statistical population of the quantitative part included 53 students with autism in Qazvin city in 1401. 20 of them were selected as a sample based on the admission criteria from Pars exceptional school and randomly assigned to 2 experimental (10) and control (10) groups. The tools included the emotion regulation inventory of Shields et al (1997) and La Greca social anxiety scale (1999). The experimental group received the training program in 12 sessions of 45 minutes. In order to analyze the data in the qualitative part, the ratio and content validity index were used, and in the quantitative part, the variance analysis test with two-way repeated measurement was used with SPSS26 software.
The training program has good content validity and has improved emotion regulation skills and reduced social anxiety in the experimental group.
It is suggested that teaching problem-solving skills should be an educational priority for adolescents with High-Functioning autism disorder.
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