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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism. 2021 Jun 12;26(1):160–168. doi: 10.1177/13623613211024521

Table 1. Example interview questions.

Topic Example questions
Establishing healthy relationships (a) Think about some of the relationships in your life that you enjoy and make you feel happy and supported. Who are they with? How did you meet them?
(b) What kinds of things do you do that make these relationships healthy and successful?
(c) What is it about the other person that makes them a good friend or partner?
Challenges in social relationships (a) When you think about your social life right now, what are the biggest problems that you are facing?
(b) Sometimes relationships don’t work out quite right, and that happens to everyone. If you’ve ever had a friendship or another type of relationship that ended even though you didn’t want it to, what do you think made that happen?
Possible gaps in existing social skills information What kinds of things have you been taught by a teacher, counselor, class, book or a TV show about friendships, other relationships, or dating that really helped you
What kinds of problems do you experience with social skills that no teacher, no counselor, no class, no book, and no TV show or movie has ever helped you with?