A cross-national review of evidence-based psychosocial treatments for children and adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders in the UK, Ireland, and United States.

The most thoroughly researched topic in relation to Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is the evaluation of interventions. Educational psychology in the UK and Ireland is the most closely allied profession to school psychology in the United States. In considering what is published by and for the profession, it is important to include all of those journals which are directly relevant to the profession including educational psychology journals. This review reports on the type, focus and quality of school-based ASD intervention research reported in school and educational psychology journals between 2005 and 2015. 12 evaluation studies are reported which evaluated 10 discrete interventions and two commercial packages. These interventions targeted academic, social, communication, and behavioural outcomes. Implications for the practice of school psychologists are discussed including the application of research to the idiographic nature of the work of school psychologists.