DOD Regulating Together Intervention

Prior treatment

• Initiation of new psychosocial intervention within 30 days prior to randomization/first day of treatment.

Other illness

• Presence of comorbid major neuropsychiatric illness warranting other treatment approaches.
• Presence of any major sensory impairment that would limit participating in the material including blindness or uncorrected hearing loss

Other

• any physical aggression toward other children outside the home in the past 2 weeks that resulted in serious injury

• Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
• A Full Scale IQ score of 65 or greater on the Weschler Abbreviated Scale Intelligence (WASI-II) or other previous Weschler IQ test
• Concern of emotion dysregulation (ED) as measured by a score of 6 or greater on the Emotion Dysregulation Inventory-Reactivity (EDI-R).
• Caregivers and child are fluent in speaking English
• Child functional verbal communication, confirmed via appropriateness for an Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) Module 3.
• Family willing to keep prescribed medication and outside interventions stable
• willing to participate in twice weekly 90-minute sessions of either Regulating Together (RT) or Achieving Independence and Mastery in School (AIMS).
• The guardian must provide written informed consent on behalf of the participant and the participants ages 11-12 years old must provide written informed assent to participate.