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ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2022

Stakeholder informed development of the Emotion Awareness and Skills Enhancement team-based program (EASE-Teams).

Kelly B Beck, Jessie B Northrup, Kaitlyn E Breitenfeldt, Shannon Porton, Taylor N Day, Kristen T MacKenzie, Caitlin M Conner, Carla A Mazefsky

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Article in Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Identifying Unique Subgroups of Emotional and Behavioral Presentations in a Large Inpatient and Community Sample of Autistic Youth.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kelly B BeckUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA.
Jessie B NorthrupUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9863-9352
Kaitlyn E BreitenfeldtUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA.
Shannon PortonUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA.
Taylor N DayUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA.
Kristen T MacKenzieUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA.
Caitlin M ConnerUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6224-2086
Carla A MazefskyUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7467-0902
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Institutional Career Development CoreKL2TR001856 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI RAY, KRISTIN N, RUBIO, DORIS M · 2016 to 2025
$13.8M
Change-sensitive Measurement of Emotion Dysregulation in ASDR01HD079512 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Carla A Mazefsky · 2014 to 2026
$6.3M
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR001856NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD079512
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

lay abstractEmotion dysregulation (ED) impacts mental health symptoms and well-being in autistic individuals. In prior work, we developed the Emotion Awareness and Skills Enhancement (EASE) to improve emotion dysregulation with autistic adolescents (aged 12-17). The study team partnered with autistic individuals, their caregivers, and expert clinicians to adapt EASE for autistic adolescents and adults with co-occurring intellectual disability and autistic elementary-aged children, groups that often benefit from caregiver support in treatment. In three phases, we (1) gathered caregiver and expert feedback to adapt the original EASE program for autistic adults with intellectual disability, (2) revised the treatment after using it with six autistic adults with intellectual disability, and (3) tested the newly developed caregiver-client team-based treatment, called EASE-Teams, in a small group of 10 autistic individuals with and without intellectual disability (aged 7-25). Families found EASE-Teams to be acceptable and helpful. We found improvements in emotion dysregulation and mental health symptoms for autistic participants. Caregivers reported less stress from their child's dysregulation after participating. These results show that EASE-Teams can be appropriate for different developmental and cognitive needs. Future studies will need to test the benefits of the treatment in community clinics.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderIntellectual DisabilityAdolescentAdultAgedCaregiversChildEmotionsHumansYoung Adultautism spectrum disordersemotion regulationfamily functioning and supportinterventions—psychosocial/behavioralmindfulness

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PMID34903083
PMCPMC9136998
OpenAlexW4200018924

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