{
  "abstract": "Background The GOSH Social Communication & Autism Spectrum Service (SCASS) is a Tier 4 national second opinion diagnostic service for children with a suspected Autism Spectrum condition, without an intellectual disability. Post diagnosis, the service offers a psychoeducation workshop for young people and their parents called PEGASUS (Psychoeducation Group for Autism Spectrum Understanding and Support). PEGASUS is a manualised, group-based psychoeducation programme aiming to support autistic children and their families develop a stronger understanding of autism. 1 We have recently updated PEGASUS to make it more aligned with current neuroaffirmative thinking,2 using first person accounts to affirm young people’s autistic experiences and encouraging them to set their own goals for areas they might like to address or feel they need help with.Participants All families participating in the updated Pegasus workshops are invited to complete feedback questionnaires at the start and end of their programmes. We have so far collected information from 8 families.Methods We used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse our data. A thematic analysis was conducted on the goals that young people and their parents told us they would like to achieve, how close they felt they were at achieving their goals at T1 (first workshop) and T2 (end of third workshop) and how satisfied they were with the programme.Preliminary Findings Young people did not always create goals, nor were their goals always relevant to the Pegasus context.Young people who created relevant goals, and their parents, reported improvements from T1 to T2.Both young people and parents reported good satisfaction with the programme at T2.Emerging themes for parent goals: finding out more about autism, learning helpful strategies and learning how to support their young people. Young people’s goals were more problem–specific, e.g. learning how to calm down, stop lashing out.References Gordon K, Murin M, Baykaner O, Roughan L, Livermore-Hardy V, Skuse D, Mandy W. A randomised controlled trial of PEGASUS, a psychoeducational programme for young people with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 2015;56(4):468–76. Available from: doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12304Chapman R, Bovell V. Neurodiversity, advocacy, anti-therapy. In: Matson JL, Sturmey P, Editors. Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder: Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment. Springer; 2022.p. 1519–1536. Available from: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88538-0_67",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Lana Espina-Mamode"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Bournemouth University, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Tessa Harris"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Pavlina Markomichali"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Samantha Young"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Miriam Bindman"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Ruth Garcia-Rodriguez"
    }
  ],
  "title": "154 What do autistic young people and their parents want to achieve from a psychoeducation programme?",
  "uid": "28ff06d4-c62c-5f3e-ad6f-0730276fa56f"
}