In this webinar, which will take place March 23, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Carla Mazefsky, Ph.D., will discuss emotion dysregulation, or difficulty managing the intensity and duration of emotional reactions, in autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

This talk will cover the landscape of emotion regulation research in ASD and highlight key findings from the Regulation of Emotion in ASD Adults, Children, and Teens (REAACT) Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Topics to be covered include the assessment of emotion dysregulation in ASD, the impact of emotion dysregulation on service utilization, mental health, and behavior, factors that contribute to differences in the severity and course of emotion dysregulation among autistic individuals, and the development and testing of the Emotion Awareness and Skills Enhancement (EASE) Program for autistic individuals with and without intellectual disability. Future directions for emotion dysregulation research in autism will also be discussed.