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اثربخشی آموزش مهارت های اجتماعی بر اضطراب نوجوانان با اختلال طیف اتیسم با عملکرد بالا

Objectives: adolescents with autism spectrum disorders often have problems in all aspects of development and functioning and regarding the anxiety problems in these children, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of social skills training on anxiety in children with high-functioning autism. Method: The present study was a quasi-experimental and randomized assignment with pre-test, post-test and follow up with the control group. The statistical population included all adolescents referring to the Behara autism center in Tehran in 1397. 30 adolescents with high-functioning autism were selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Then the intervention sessions were conducted in 10 sessions of 90 minutes in 5 weeks for the experimental group. The participants of both groups were evaluated before and after intervention, also 5 weeks after the last session of the intervention using Spence Anxiety Inventory. The data of pre-test, post-test and follow-up were analyzed using repeated measure ANOVA. Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of experimental and control groups in anxiety scores (p<0.05). Also, there was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test of the anxiety scores in the experimental groups (p<0.05) and there is no significant difference between post-test and follow up of anxiety scores (p<0.05). conclusion: According to the findings, social skills training in reducing the anxiety of adolescents with high-functioning autism has been helpful. Keywords: autism, anxiety, social skills, adolescents

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