Donnelly Lauren J, Cervantes Paige E, Guo Fei, Stein Cheryl R, Okparaeke Eugene, Kuriakose Sarah, Filton Beryl, Havens Jennifer, Horwitz Sarah M
Child Study Center, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Langone, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Heath, NYU Langone, New York, NY, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2023 Feb;53(2):606-614. doi: 10.1007/s10803-020-04775-y. Epub 2020 Nov 17.
Caring for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be complicated, especially when challenging behaviors are present. Providers may feel unprepared to work with these individuals because specialized training for medical and social service providers is limited. To increase access to specialized training, we modified an effective half-day ASD-Care Pathway training (Kuriakose et al. 2018) and disseminated it within five different settings. This short, focused training on strategies for preventing and reducing challenging behaviors of patients with ASD resulted in significant improvements in staff perceptions of challenging behaviors, increased comfort in working with the ASD population, and increased staff knowledge for evidence-informed practices. Implications, including the impact of sociodemographic characteristics on pre/post changes, and future directions are discussed.
照顾自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）患者可能会很复杂，尤其是当出现具有挑战性的行为时。医疗服务提供者可能会觉得没有做好与这些患者合作的准备，因为针对医疗和社会服务提供者的专业培训有限。为了增加获得专业培训的机会，我们修改了一个有效的为期半天的ASD护理路径培训（库里亚科斯等人，2018年），并在五种不同的环境中进行了推广。这项针对预防和减少ASD患者具有挑战性的行为策略的简短、重点突出的培训，使工作人员对具有挑战性的行为的认知有了显著改善，与ASD患者群体合作时的舒适度增加，并且工作人员对循证实践的知识也有所增加。文中讨论了相关影响，包括社会人口统计学特征对前后变化的影响以及未来方向。
