Carlota Alcover Van de Walle

Fundacio Blanquerna · Department of Clinical Psychology

The demand of social skills interventions for people with ASD has grown in recent years. The main goal of this research was to study social skills: “responding to interaction” and “initiating interaction”, and to capture whether there were differences between an initial and a final session in a program for children with ASD. Additionally, we aimed...

Over the last 20 years, researchers have been mixing qualitative and quantitative approaches, but mixed methods research represents a new movement that arose in response to the currents of qualitative and quantitative research, considered separately. Little has been published on the use of polar coordinate analysis in psychotherapy. This type of an...

Assess the evolution in a group of children and adolescents with ASD who carry out a Social Skills training program in children and adolescents with ASD (adaptation “MIND Social Skills Training" using observational methodology.

The purpose of this work was: 1. To analyze the anxious and depressive symptomatology in a sample of children and adolescents with ASD. 2. Conduct a pilot study to assess whether an intervention in social skills decreases anxious and depressive symptoms.