Theory of Mind and Social Informant Discrepancy in Autism.
When autistic youth are asked to assess their own social skills, they frequently rate themselves more favorably than their parents rate them. The magnitude of this informant discrepancy has been shown to relate to key clinical outcomes such as treatment response. It has been proposed that this discr...
| Publicado en: | Child Psychiatry & Human Development Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 10 - 25 |
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