A Strength-Based Intervention to Improve Job Interview Skills in Transition Age Youth with ASD

基于优势的干预措施，以提高患有自闭症谱系障碍的过渡时期青年的求职面试技巧

• 批准号: 10308108
• 负责人: HELEN M GENOVA
• 金额: $ 13.35万
• 依托单位: KESSLER FOUNDATION, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-12-01 至 2023-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10308108
• 关键词: Adolescent; Adult; Advocacy; Affect; Age; Awareness; Caregivers; Clinical; Data; Effectiveness; Employment; Employment Status; Enrollment; Evaluation; Exclusion; Feedback; Foundations; Funding; Future; Goals; Impairment; Individual; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Interview; Interviewer; Investigational Therapies; K-18 conjugate; Lead; Literature; Modeling; Modification; Monitor; National Institute of Mental Health; Occupations; Outcome; Parents; Patient Self-Report; Perception; Performance; Pilot Projects; Population Heterogeneity; Preparation; Privatization; Process; Psychology; Publishing; Randomized Controlled Trials; Reporting; Research; Resources; Risk; Schools; Services; Structure; Surveys; System; Talents; Testing; Therapeutic; Time; Training; Unemployment; Youth; adolescent with autism spectrum disorder; autism community; autism spectrum disorder; base; career; community setting; comparison intervention; design; effectiveness evaluation; high school; implementation evaluation; improved; improved outcome; individuals with autism spectrum disorder; negative affect; novel; process evaluation; productivity loss; services as usual; skills; social; social deficits; teacher; trial comparing; usability; week trial

High rates of unemployment are observed in transition-age youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (TAY-ASD). Moreover, TAY-ASD within 2 years of high school graduation are at the greatest risk of unemployment. Given that 1 in 59 youths have autism, the exclusion of this growing subpopulation from the workforce is expected to have a profound negative impact upon the economy as these individuals age. Thus, to help enhance access to employment for TAY-ASD, the current study will evaluate the acceptability and effectiveness of a strength- based intervention (Kessler Foundation Strength Identification and Expression; KF-STRIDE) that can enhance job interview skills and employment. Despite possessing employable talents, the core social deficits of TAY- ASD make it difficult for this group to articulate their individual strengths. This inability to identify and express one’s strengths to a potential employer can negatively affect interview performance and lead to difficulty with job obtainment. Thus, the current proposal will examine the effectiveness (Aim 1), acceptability, usability, and feasibility (Aim 2) of a novel strength-based intervention, KF-STRIDE, which is designed to enhance the ability of TAY-ASD to identify personal strengths and effectively discuss them. The goals of the current study are to evaluate the preliminary effectiveness and feasibility of KF-STRIDE in an 8-week randomized controlled trial comparing the intervention to services as usual (SAU). The study will be performed at two private therapeutic schools. Compared to a SAU group, we hypothesize that the KF-STRIDE group will: a) improve the ability to identify strengths (Hypothesis 1), b) improve the ability to express strengths (Hypothesis 2), c) improve other job interview skills (Hypothesis 3) and finally c) improve ability to obtain employment 6-months following the intervention (Hypothesis 4). In this way, the current study is in line with the NIMH’s experimental therapeutics model, as we will examine whether the intervention improves employment, as well as identify potential mechanistic targets that could affect outcome. In Aim 2, we will also monitor fidelity, acceptability, usability, and feasibility of the strength-based intervention. The long-term goal of the current research is to collect pilot data that will lead to fully-powered effectiveness and implementation evaluations of KF-STRIDE in other community settings.

高失业率观察到过渡年龄青年自闭症谱系障碍（TAY-ASD）。

项目成果

Character Strengths Across Disabilities: An International Exploratory Study and Implications for Positive Psychiatry and Psychology.

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.863977
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Frontiers in psychiatry
• 影响因子: 4.7
• 作者: Umucu E;Lee B;Genova HM;Chopik WJ;Sung C;Yasuoka M;Niemiec RM
• 通讯作者: Niemiec RM

Development and adaptation of a strength-based job interview training tool for transition age youth on the autism spectrum using community engaged methods.

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1098334
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
• 影响因子: 4.7
• 作者: Genova, Helen M.;Haas, Mikayla;Chen, Yu-Lun;Elsayed, Heba E.;McGrath, Robert E.;Smith, Matthew J.
• 通讯作者: Smith, Matthew J.