CBT for Youth With Autism and Emotional/Behavioral Needs in Community Care Settings

Inclusion Criteria

• •1. Youth will have a pre-existing clinical diagnosis of ASD made by an appropriate licensed professional (e.g., clinical psychologist, developmental pediatrician) which will be documented in a report or medical note provided by the family, or confirmed telephonically by the diagnosing professional.
• •2. The parent-reported Social Responsive Scale-2 (SRS-2; Constantino \& Gruber, 2012) Total T-Score will be \> 60 (cut-score maximizing ROC curve parameters for screening for ASD; area under the curve = 98.8%; Schanding et al., 2011).
• •3. Youth will meet criteria for clinically significant emotion dysregulation symptoms as defined by a minimum T-score of 60 on the Externalizing or Internalizing subscales of the parent-reported Brief Problem Monitor (BPM) and at least 15 T-score points over 50 between these two BPM subscales (e.g., Internalizing=60 + Externalizing=55).
• •4. The youth has a Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales-3 Communication Composite Standard Score \> 60 and Expressive Communication subscale v-score \> 8 (in both cases \> 1st %ile).