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The Daily Experience of Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder of High Performance.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

E. Magallón-Neri ,
M. Forns ,
T. Kirchner  and
C. Amat
E. Magallón-Neri
Affiliation:
Personality Assessment and Psychological Treatment, University of Barcelona Faculty of Psychology. IR3c, BARCELONA, Spain
M. Forns
Affiliation:
Personality Assessment and Psychological Treatment, University of Barcelona Faculty of Psychology. IR3c, BARCELONA, Spain
T. Kirchner
Affiliation:
Personality Assessment and Psychological Treatment, University of Barcelona Faculty of Psychology. IR3c, BARCELONA, Spain
C. Amat
Affiliation:
Federació Espectre Austista, Asperger de Catalunya Barcelona., BARCELONA, Spain

Abstract

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Study of mental disorders phenomenology is a field increasingly developing. The Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) is a methodology that allows to capture mental microprocesses fluctuations in the moment they happen.

Objective

To explain the development of an application based on EMA methodology by using smartphones, for assessing several criteria of autism spectrum disorders in adolescents with Asperger syndrome.

Method

The application assesses several contexts among them situational, personal contact, interests fields, communicative interaction, satisfaction level, and feelings. Additionally, it is applied a cognitive (WISC-IV) and psychopathological (ADOS-G, CBCL, STAI, CDI) assessment.

Results

Preliminary results suggest that adolescents diagnosed with Asperger syndrome present a response rate of about 90%. They tend to spend more time with parents and tuthors taking care of them. They present anxiety peaks when they live together with groups of three or more persons. The activity mostly registered in their everyday life is resting. Besides, they regularly have a feeling that they understand the others and that are understood by the others when they communicate orally.

Conclusion

The Ecological Momentary Assessment can be a methodology very useful for understanding the daily dynamics of persons with Asperger syndrome. It is not intrusive and is very useful for the contents that provides to the clinician or researcher.

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Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 30 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 23rd European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2015 , pp. 1
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2015
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