Social Skills Training for Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Meta-analysis of In-person and Technological Interventions.

Social skills training (SST) for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has traditionally focused on face-to-face (F2F-SST) interventions. Recently, Behavioral Intervention Technologies (BITs-SST) have been utilized to target social skills deficits using computer-based programs, avatars, and therapeutic robots. The present meta-analysis reviews recent evidence and compares the efficacy of 14 F2F-SST and four identified BITs-SST intervention trials for youth with ASD.

Publication Trends in Psychotherapy: Bibliometric Analysis of the Past 5 Decades.

Objective: Bibliometric analyses are commonly used to document publication trends over time; however, this methodology has not been used to investigate possible trends concerning publishing about psychotherapy brands. In this study, the authors sought to identify the publication trends of peer-reviewed articles about 30 psychotherapy brands.

Methods: Analyses were focused on the past 50 years and on each decade from 1970 to 2019.