Paediatric Evaluation of Emotions Relationships and Socialisation (PEERS): L’adaptation et la normalisation d’une batterie d’évaluation de la cognition sociale

Socio-emotional skills are crucial for developing satisfying relationships; failure in this domain can have significant consequences for well-being across the lifespan such as bullying, social anxiety and isolation. However, no well-validated socio-emotional assessments exist, limiting our ability to effectively intervene. The Paediatric Evaluation of Emotions Relationships and Socialisation (PEERS) battery was developed by the Australian Centre for Child Neuropsychology Studies team to address this gap. Embedded in the SOCIAL (Socio-Cognitive Integration of Abilities model, Beauchamp & Anderson, 2010) biopsychosocial theoretical framework, PEERS Clinical is a child-direct, interactive, individually administered assessment of social skills delivered via iPad by a trained assessor. Our aim is to collaborate to produce a French language adaptation to better evaluate and intervene with regard to social cognition and competence with French Canadian children. Work on normative data will also be done on typically developing children aged 4-18 years and on children with clinical diagnoses such as autism spectrum disorder and ADHD.

Faculty Supervisor:

Miriam Beauchamp

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Partner:

The University of Melbourne

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

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