Improved awareness regarding autistic traits in adolescents
autistic, autistic traits
The improvement in adolescents’ self-awareness regarding their autistic traits and understanding of their children’s autistic traits among parents/guardians was significantly greater in those who participated in the ACAT program than in those who received TAU. This suggests that the ACAT was effective in helping autistic adolescents and their parents/guardians become aware of the former’s autistic traits, particularly their strengths. CBT involves cognitive and behavioral procedures to understand one’s response patterns through “metacognition,” which is the process of monitoring one’s responses in problem-solving and transforming those response patterns [