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- Title
A Parent-Mediated Intervention That Targets Responsive Parental Behaviors Increases Attachment Behaviors in Children with ASD: Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Authors
Siller, Michael; Swanson, Meghan; Gerber, Alan; Hutman, Ted; Sigman, Marian
- Abstract
The current study is a randomized clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of Focused Playtime Intervention (FPI) in a sample of 70 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This parent-mediated intervention has previously been shown to significantly increase responsive parental communication (Siller et al. in J Autism Dev Disord 43:540-555, ). The current analyses focus on children's attachment related outcomes. Results revealed that children who were randomly assigned to FPI showed bigger increases in attachment-related behaviors, compared to children assigned to the control condition. Significant treatment effects of FPI were found for both an observational measure of attachment-related behaviors elicited during a brief separation-reunion episode and a questionnaire measure evaluating parental perceptions of child attachment. The theoretical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed.
- Subjects
ATTACHMENT behavior in children; AUTISM; CHI-squared test; CONVERSATION; INTERVIEWING; LONGITUDINAL method; SCIENTIFIC observation; PARENT-child relationships; PARENTING; PARENTS; PLAY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SEPARATION anxiety; T-test (Statistics); VIDEO recording; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; HUMAN services programs; INTER-observer reliability; PARENT attitudes; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SYMPTOMS; CHILDREN
- Publication
Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 2014, Vol 44, Issue 7, p1720
- ISSN
0162-3257
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10803-014-2049-2