Personalized autism symptom assessment with the Youth Top Problems Scale: Observational and parent-report formats for clinical trials applications.

Few measures of autism-related symptoms have been established as both psychometrically robust and sensitive to the effects of treatment. In the present study, a personalized measure of autism-related symptoms using the Youth Top Problems (YTP) method (Weisz et al., 2011) was evaluated.

Modular cognitive behavioral therapy for autism-related symptoms in children: A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To date, no one-on-one psychotherapy protocol for elementary and middle school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been found to be efficacious for treating autism-related symptoms such as failure to initiate social interactions. This study compared modular cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with enhanced standard community treatment (ESCT) in terms of impact on the severity of autism-related symptoms.

Method: Children with ASD (N = 107; aged 6-13 years) were randomly assigned to a treatment condition (CBT or ESCT).