@article{Saima_Amin_2023, place={Pakistan}, title={Effectiveness of Adapted Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) in Adolescents with ASD: Effectiveness of Adapted PEERS® in adolescents with ASD}, volume={4}, url={https://thejas.com.pk/index.php/pjhs/article/view/708}, DOI={10.54393/pjhs.v4i04.708}, abstractNote={<p>PEERS® for Adolescents is an evidence-based social skills intervention for autistic youth and adolescents with other social challenges. <strong>Objective: </strong>To examine the effectiveness of the PEERS intervention in Pakistani adolescents with ASD. <strong>Methods:</strong> Total 98 parents (Mage = 41.60, SD = 3.90), and 63 teachers (Mean age = 36.63, SD = 7.80) of 98 adolescents (Mean age = 14.39, SD = 1.80) with ASD were recruited from two schools of Islamabad and one school of Rawalpindi via purposive sampling. <strong>Results:</strong> Findings demonstrated significant improvements in social skills knowledge of adolescents with adopted PEERS, <em>F (1, 93) = 36.38, p<.001</em>. <strong>Conclusions</strong>: Results indicated that PEERS is an effective program to enhance the overall socialization of Pakistani Adolescents with ASD.</p>}, number={04}, journal={Pakistan Journal of Health Sciences}, author={Saima, . and Amin, Rizwana}, year={2023}, month={Apr.}, pages={170–175} }