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Parent, Teacher and Observational Reports of Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Young Autistic Children

Emotional and behavioral problems (EBPs) frequently occur in young autistic children. Discrepancies between parents and other informants are common but can lead to uncertainty in formulation, diagnosis and care planning. This study aimed to explore child and informant characteristics are associated...

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Autores principales: Palmer, Melanie, Tarver, Joanne, Carter Leno, Virginia, Paris Perez, Juan, Frayne, Margot, Slonims, Vicky, Pickles, Andrew, Scott, Stephen, Charman, Tony, Simonoff, Emily
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35028809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05421-x
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author Palmer, Melanie
Tarver, Joanne
Carter Leno, Virginia
Paris Perez, Juan
Frayne, Margot
Slonims, Vicky
Pickles, Andrew
Scott, Stephen
Charman, Tony
Simonoff, Emily
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Tarver, Joanne
Carter Leno, Virginia
Paris Perez, Juan
Frayne, Margot
Slonims, Vicky
Pickles, Andrew
Scott, Stephen
Charman, Tony
Simonoff, Emily
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description Emotional and behavioral problems (EBPs) frequently occur in young autistic children. Discrepancies between parents and other informants are common but can lead to uncertainty in formulation, diagnosis and care planning. This study aimed to explore child and informant characteristics are associated with reported child EBPs across settings. Participants were 83 4–8-year-old autistic children and their parents and teachers in the Autism Spectrum Treatment and Resilience (ASTAR) study. Questionnaires of child EBPs were completed by parents and teachers, and self-reported parenting stress and wellbeing measures were obtained. An observation of parent–child/researcher-child interaction was also completed. Parents reported more EBPs than teachers and parent-teacher agreement was low, particularly for emotional problems. Greater parenting stress and being verbal was associated with more parent- but not teacher-reported EBPs. More observed behaviors that challenge were displayed by minimally verbal children. More parenting stress could be associated with the presence of more EBPs in the home; alternatively, parenting stress may confound reports. It is essential for assessments of EBPs in autistic children to take a multi-informant approach. Better understanding of the associations between informant characteristics and informant discrepancies of EBPs is needed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10803-021-05421-x.
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spelling pubmed-98895262023-02-02 Parent, Teacher and Observational Reports of Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Young Autistic Children Palmer, Melanie Tarver, Joanne Carter Leno, Virginia Paris Perez, Juan Frayne, Margot Slonims, Vicky Pickles, Andrew Scott, Stephen Charman, Tony Simonoff, Emily J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper Emotional and behavioral problems (EBPs) frequently occur in young autistic children. Discrepancies between parents and other informants are common but can lead to uncertainty in formulation, diagnosis and care planning. This study aimed to explore child and informant characteristics are associated with reported child EBPs across settings. Participants were 83 4–8-year-old autistic children and their parents and teachers in the Autism Spectrum Treatment and Resilience (ASTAR) study. Questionnaires of child EBPs were completed by parents and teachers, and self-reported parenting stress and wellbeing measures were obtained. An observation of parent–child/researcher-child interaction was also completed. Parents reported more EBPs than teachers and parent-teacher agreement was low, particularly for emotional problems. Greater parenting stress and being verbal was associated with more parent- but not teacher-reported EBPs. More observed behaviors that challenge were displayed by minimally verbal children. More parenting stress could be associated with the presence of more EBPs in the home; alternatively, parenting stress may confound reports. It is essential for assessments of EBPs in autistic children to take a multi-informant approach. Better understanding of the associations between informant characteristics and informant discrepancies of EBPs is needed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10803-021-05421-x. Springer US 2022-01-13 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9889526/ /pubmed/35028809 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05421-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Paris Perez, Juan
Frayne, Margot
Slonims, Vicky
Pickles, Andrew
Scott, Stephen
Charman, Tony
Simonoff, Emily
Parent, Teacher and Observational Reports of Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Young Autistic Children
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title_fullStr Parent, Teacher and Observational Reports of Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Young Autistic Children
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title_short Parent, Teacher and Observational Reports of Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Young Autistic Children
title_sort parent, teacher and observational reports of emotional and behavioral problems in young autistic children
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35028809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05421-x
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