Using community engagement to adapt anxiety cognitive behavioural therapy for autistic youth receiving services in Michigan community-based organisations: protocol for a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Anxiety disorders are among the most common co-occurring mental health conditions experienced by autistic youth. Without appropriate intervention, anxiety disorders and related difficulties experienced by autistic youth can remain well into adulthood, causing reduced quality of life. Behavioral Interventions for Anxiety in Children with Autism (BIACA) is a manualised, modular evidence-based cognitive behavioural therapy with demonstrated efficacy in reducing or fully remitting anxiety symptoms and improving overall adaptive functioning for autistic youth. However, BIACA has been developed and tested mostly in academic research laboratories and has involved a limited number of community clinicians. Thus, certain characteristics (eg, length, complexity) may require adapt

SUBMITTER: Tschida J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12306329 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature