Virtual Job Interview Training for Transition Age Youth with ASD

为患有自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 的过渡时期青年提供虚拟求职面试培训

• 批准号: 9214114
• 负责人: Matthew James Smith
• 金额: $ 25.97万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9214114
• 关键词: Adopted; Adult; Age; Anxiety; Assessment tool; Cognition; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Effectiveness; Employment; Enrollment; Evidence based treatment; Face; Feedback; Future; Goals; Grant; Health Services; Health Services Accessibility; Health Services Research; Heterogeneity; High School Student; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Lead; Learning; Longevity; Mediator of activation protein; Modification; Monitor; National Institute of Mental Health; Occupations; Outcome; Parents; Performance; Population; Prevalence; Procedures; Professional counselor; Protocols documentation; Randomized; Randomized Controlled Trials; Recruitment Activity; Research; Resources; Secure; Series; Services; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Strategic Planning; Students; Symptoms; System; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Unemployment; Variant; Work; Youth; autism spectrum disorder; base; control trial; depressive symptoms; educational atmosphere; evidence base; experience; follow-up; high needs schools; high school; high school program; improved; improved outcome; innovation; interest; neuropsychiatry; novel; pilot trial; portability; programs; public health relevance; repetitive behavior; response; severe mental illness; skills; skills training; social; social communication; suburb; trial comparing; usability; virtual; virtual reality; young adult

Project Summary The unemployment rate is quite high among adults with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Inadequate transition planning during high school and gaps between vocational needs and availability of evidence-based services help explain the struggles of transition-age youth at obtaining employment. There is a paucity of research on developing and evaluating services to support the transition to the work force after graduating from high school. The lack of available resources to support transition-age youth with an ASD speaks to the need to develop interventions that ameliorate obstacles to employment and help support the transition to the work force. Due to the social deficits characterizing ASD innovative interventions could target preparing job interview skills for students facing the transition to employment as the job interview is a critical gateway to securing a job offer. Thus, the overarching goal of this study is to modify an existing virtual reality job interview skills training program for use in high school students with ASD and to test the feasibility and effectiveness of conducting this intervention in a high school setting via a small controlled trial. Thus, our first aim is to modify the existing `Virtual Reality Job Interview Training' program to meet the specific needs of high school seniors with ASD. We will accomplish this by conducting in depth interviews with high school students with ASD and their vocational counselors to solicit feedback to modify the current training's learning goals, content, usability, and simulated interview scripts to meet the specific needs of transition age youth. An expert panel will determine the final modifications to the training program based on the results of the qualitative data analysis and their own views of the program. Our second aim is to conduct a pilot trial to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, portability, fidelity and preliminary effectiveness of the modified intervention in a randomized controlled trial. We will also explore potential mechanisms for effectiveness and collect pilot implementation data.

项目摘要 患有自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的成年人的失业率相当高。不足 高中阶段的过渡规划以及职业需求与循证教育的可得性之间的差距 服务有助于解释过渡年龄青年在就业方面的挣扎。很少有 研究发展和评估服务，以支持毕业后向劳动力过渡 高中缺乏可用资源来支持患有ASD的过渡年龄青年，这说明需要 制定干预措施，减少就业障碍，并帮助支持向工作的过渡 力由于ASD的社会缺陷特征，创新干预措施可以针对准备工作面试 为面临就业过渡的学生提供的技能，因为求职面试是获得工作的重要途径 报价.因此，本研究的总体目标是修改现有的虚拟现实求职面试技能培训 该计划用于高中学生与ASD，并测试进行这一可行性和有效性 通过一项小型对照试验在高中环境中进行干预。因此，我们的首要目标是修改现有的 “虚拟现实求职面试培训”方案，以满足患有自闭症的高中毕业生的具体需求。我们 我将通过对患有ASD的高中生及其职业生涯进行深入访谈来实现这一目标。 辅导员征求反馈意见，以修改当前培训的学习目标，内容，可用性和模拟 采访脚本，以满足过渡年龄青年的具体需求。一个专家小组将决定最终的 根据定性数据分析的结果和自己的意见对培训方案进行修改 程序的一部分。我们的第二个目标是进行一项试点试验，以评估可行性、可接受性、可移植性， 在一项随机对照试验中，改良干预措施的保真度和初步有效性。我们还将 探索可能的有效机制，并收集试点实施数据。