Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
Families’ Neighborhood Resources Predict Treatment Response for Regulating Together, a Group Therapy for Emotion Dysregulation in Autistic Youth
Introduction: Autistic youth often face difficulties with emotion dysregulation (ED) and associated challenging behaviors. The Regulating Together (RT) group therapy was developed to treat ED in autistic youth ages 8–18 years and has been shown to be feasible, acceptable, and efficacious at reducing ED. Results from other clinical trials suggest the efficacy of behavioral therapies may vary based on family- or neighborhood-level social determinants of health (SDOH: “the conditions in the environments where people a …