RESUMEN
This report examines the relationship between treatment response in children with ASD and parents' affective symptomatology. This study examined 29 children with ASD in a manualized group psychotherapy program, Resilience Builder Program® (RBP), where emotional and social functioning of parent and child were measured through pre- and post-treatment questionnaires. Greater parental symptomatology was associated with children's reduced response to RBP in resilience-based emotion regulation skills. Greater parental interpersonal sensitivity (ß = - .27, p = .024) predicted worse post-treatment scores in child communication skills, greater parental anxious symptoms (ß = - .45, p = .005) predicted worse post-treatment scores in child emotional control, and greater parental depressive (ß = .27, p = .041) and anxious symptoms (ß = .36, p = .004) predicted worse post-treatment scores in child internalizing problems.
