A Strength-Based Intervention to Improve Job Interview Skills in Young Adults in a Community Setting
Kessler Foundation
Summary
The investigators are looking to evaluate how effective a strength-based intervention may be in improving job interview skills in young adults. The investigators are examining the effects of this intervention in young adults who may have difficulty with job interviews, and who may want to improve these skills.
Description
The investigators have developed KF-STRIDE, a promising web-based intervention which focuses on helping autistic transition age youth improve interview skills by 1) learning to identify their unique employable strengths, and 2) practice speaking about those strengths to potential employers in socially appropriate ways. The inability to express one's strengths to a potential employer can negatively affect interview performance and lead to difficulty with job obtainment. Importantly, KF-STRIDE is web-based, so it is highly scalable, and uses well-established principles of positive psychology. Th…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 14–26 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: Lives in the United States of America Between the ages of 14-26 Speaks English well and at a 4th grade reading level Exclusion Criteria: Had a stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, or neurological injury or disease in the past(like brain tumor or epilepsy) Has a history of significant psychiatric illness(like schizophrenia or psychosis) Has uncontrolled seizures or other unstable medical complications
Interventions
- BehavioralKF-STRIDE®
Treatment group will receive 10 web based sessions of a strength-based training tool (once or twice a week). Sessions are approximately 60 minutes long.
Location
- Kessler FoundationEast Hanover, New Jersey