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Autism Spectrum Addendum to the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule-Parent Interview

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ADIS/ASA

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The Autism Spectrum Addendum (ASA) is a series of guidelines, prompts, and questions that can be woven into the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule-IV-Child/Parent (ADIS-IV-C/P; Silverman and Albano 1996), a semi-structured diagnostic interview of childhood anxiety disorders and related condition (e.g., obsessive-compulsive disorder [OCD], major depressive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) to better tailor it for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). For brevity, we will refer to the combined tools as the ADIS/ASA. The purpose of the ASA is: (1) to provide systematic guidelines for differentiating potentially overlapping anxiety and autism spectrum symptoms, such as social avoidance, and (2) to capture distinct worries and fears that arise in ASD but do not fit traditional categories of anxiety as outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, TR (DSM-IV-TR; American...

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    Connor M. Kerns

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Kerns, C.M. (2020). Autism Spectrum Addendum to the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule-Parent Interview. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_102305-1

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