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Trial reportJournal of autism and developmental disorders2014

A replication and extension of the PEERS intervention: examining effects on social skills and social anxiety in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.

Kirsten A Schohl, Amy V Van Hecke, Audrey Meyer Carson, Bridget Dolan, Jeffrey Karst, Sheryl Stevens

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03354923 (Parent-Child Reciprocity and the Effectiveness of a Parent-Assisted Social Skills Training Program for Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder), which is not on this map. Cited by 79 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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79citing papers in PubMed, 12 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03354923 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2016, after this paper: background citation

Parent-Child Reciprocity and the Effectiveness of a Parent-Assisted Social Skills Training Program for Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder

TypeinterventionalSponsorBar-Ilan University, IsraelRan2016 to 2019Enrolled80ConditionsSocial Skills, Parent-Child Relational ProblemArmsPEERS intervention
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 200 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERSJournal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025
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  20. Changes in Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents with ASD Completing the PEERSJournal of autism and developmental disorders · 2018
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19 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kirsten A SchohlDepartment of Psychology, Marquette University, PO Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI, 53201-1881, USA, kirsten.schohl@mu.edu.
Amy V Van Hecke
Audrey Meyer Carson
Bridget Dolan
Jeffrey Karst
Sheryl Stevens
Marquette University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS: Laugeson et al. in J Autism Dev Disord 39(4):596-606, 2009). PEERS focuses on improving friendship quality and social skills among adolescents with higher-functioning ASD. 58 participants aged 11-16 years-old were randomly assigned to either an immediate treatment or waitlist comparison group. Results revealed, in comparison to the waitlist group, that the experimental treatment group significantly improved their knowledge of PEERS concepts and friendship skills, increased in their amount of get-togethers, and decreased in their levels of social anxiety, core autistic symptoms, and problem behaviors from pre-to post-PEERS. This study provides the first independent replication and extension of the empirically-supported PEERS social skills intervention for adolescents with ASD.

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Social BehaviorAdolescentChildChild Development Disorders, PervasiveFemaleHumansMalePsychotherapy, GroupTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID23893101
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