Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong condition. Previous studies mainly put emphasis on ASD in children, yet there were limited studies on ASD in adults, making the social needs of the children with ASD difficult to continue into adulthood. This article probes into the key questions of the epidemiology, major characteristics, social needs, and outcomes in adults with ASD, hoping it to be conducive to their intervention and rehabilitation.

Asperger syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction along with restricted and abnormal patterns of interests and behavior. Family plays an important role in the development of children’s behavior norms, learning habits, and social interaction skills around school age. However, challenges remain in psychological counseling and therapy because the majority of psychological counselors and therapists have insufficient understanding of the characteristics of the children with Asperger syndrome and inadequate knowledge of parental help for the children. This article, in vast detail, shares the author’s 20-odd year treatment experience of families that had children with Asperger syndrome around school age.

Objective: This study used the psychosocial development theory and society ecosystem theory to examine the relationship between psychosocial development and life satisfaction from the aspect of the adolescents’ personality characteristics.
Methods: This study adopted a one-year follow-up design to analyze the cross-lagged relationship of psychosocial development and life satisfaction of 526 preliminary students (55.46% female students; 44.54% male students).
Results: In early adolescence, the levels of individual psychosocial development and life satisfaction decreased with age. Furthermore, there was a cross-lagged effect on psychosocial development and life satisfaction: psychosocial development in Dec 2017 (time 1) positively predicted life satisfaction in Dec 2018 (time 2); life satisfaction at time 1 predicted the psychosocial development at time 2.
Conclusions: The psychosocial development and life satisfaction levels of adolescents will decrease with time. Psychosocial development will affect life satisfaction and vice versa.

Objective: To study the correlations between decision-making style and clinical characteristics in patients with bipolar depression (BD).
Methods: A case-control study was conducted with a sample of 30 patients with BD and 30 healthy subjects. The differences of decision-making styles between the participants of two groups were compared. Moreover, the correlations between decision-making styles and clinical characteristics of patients with BD were analyzed.
Results: The total score of Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire (MDMQ) (p< 0.001) and the factor scores of hypervigilance, buck-passing and procrastination of patients with BD were higher than those of healthy controls (p<0.05). However, there were no significant correlations between the total score or the factor scores of MDMQ with HAMD-24 score and HAMA score in the participants. Total score of MDMQ (r=0.437, p< 0.05), hypervigilance (r= 0.470, p < 0.05) and buck-passing (r= 0.421, p < 0.05) in BD patients were significantly and positively correlated with cognitive dysfunction score of HAMD-24. In addition, procrastination (r=-0.376, p<0.05) was also positively correlated with atypical circadian rhythm score of HAMD-24, while negatively correlated with sleep disorder score (r=-0.460, p<0.05). Furthermore, ROC curve analysis suggested that, with a cutoff value of 4.50, the AUC of MDMQ factor score (procrastination) on BD was 0.701.
Conclusions: BD patients showed a unique decision-making style, and it might be one of the clinical characteristics of BD and might play a role in the diagnosis of the disease.

Objective: To investigate the current application of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in psychological workers from the aspects of awareness rate, application evaluation, and training status of CBT in them.
Methods: The demographic information, common psychotherapy methods, and CBT application of psychological workers were investigated and analyzed by using the self-designed questionnaire.
Results: (1) The analysis included 202 valid questionnaires. Among the common psychotherapies, CBT (86.1%) is the most commonly used psychotherapy by psychological workers. (2) 97.0% of the psychological workers have an understanding of CBT; 96.5% are interested in learning CBT. (3) Among the psychological workers that have an understanding of CBT, more than 50% of them utilize CBT in their work; 65.3% believe CBT has a better treatment effect; 52.6% think that cognitive technique is the most difficult to master in learning CBT; 43.9% think that behavioral technique is the easiest to master when patients receive CBT treatment; 60.7% think that, in CBT, behavior technique has the best treatment effect to patients. (4) 63.4% of psychological workers think that the most challenging point of learning CBT is that there is no opportunity for systematic training, with only 25.7% of them that have received CBT-related systematic long-term training.
Conclusion: Having cognitive technique and behavioral technique as the core techniques, CBT is widely used by psychological workers in China; however, there is not much opportunity for psychological workers to receive systematic CBT training.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence and examine the predictors of perceived stress in Chinese college students during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Methods: During the COVID-19 outbreak in February 2020, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) and a self-designed associated factors questionnaire were distributed to college students in China over the internet.
Results: In the end, 1465 valid questionnaires, that were completed by students from provinces, cities and autonomous regions across the country except Macau and Taiwan, were collected, among which 70.6% were female students and 29.4% were male, with the mean age of 19.3 (1.3) years. The findings showed that 78.2% of the participants exceeded the normative community score of 12 on the PSS-10 scale; and 23.2% exceeded the cut-point of 5 on the GAD-7 scale. Female students had a significantly higher GAD-7 mean score than males, and no gender difference was found in PSS-10. Low physical activity level, poor knowledge of COVD-19, low perception of curability, and high perception transmission risk are risk factors of perceived stress in college students; poor physical health, long duration of paying attention to COVID-19 information, low perception of curability, and high perception of transmission risk are risk factors of anxiety.
Conclusions: In the COVID-19 outbreak, the stress level of college students should be monitored and concerned. Promoting physical activity and enhancing knowledge of the outbreak might be effective ways to reduce perceived stress among college students.

Eating disorders (ED) are mental illness with relatively high mortality that cause severe physiological and psychological damages to patients. Interpersonal psychotherapy, as an evidence-based psychotherapy, ameliorates symptoms by making improvement in interpersonal problems related to symptoms, that has been shown to be effective in the clinical treatment of ED. This article reviews the research results of interpersonal psychotherapy applied to ED and briefly discusses the prospect and future research direction of interpersonal psychotherapy applied to ED in China.

Few domestic researchers have explored how to curb the ongoing decline of interpersonal trust from the perspective of kind and hostile intentions understanding. The study firstly introduces the explicit and implicit research paradigms of kind and hostile intentions understanding at home and abroad. Secondly, the latest studies adopting the trust game paradigm in economic psychology to explore how the subjective factors such as kind and hostile intentions affect interpersonal trust are reviewed. Finally, the prospect of future research directions in economic psychology is briefly discussed, including the adoption of multiple technologies such as behavioral and cognitive neuroscience methods to explore the effective means of curbing the interpersonal trust crisis from different person perspectives combined with the good and hostile intentions expressed through the verbal or nonverbal form.

With the development of the research on central nervous function and neuropathology, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has become a research hotspot again. In order to understand the intervention effect of tDCS on working memory, this review systematically searched different databases to give an overview of the intervention effect of tDCS on different groups of people and the influence of different settings of intervention parameters on the intervention effect.

Personal counseling or persnonal therapy, also translated as personal experience, refers to the counselor receiving psychological counseling as a client. This article describes the industry standard and schools of thought of psychological counseling at home and abroad, the practice circumstances of personal counseling, and the process, evaluation and impact of personal counseling. We also probe into two debates of this field: personal counseling and supervision, and personal counseling in academic training. In the process of localization of personal counseling in China, comprehensive and systematic survey should be carried out, the analysis of counseling process should be emphasized, and the practice and research experience of supervision could be used for reference. Meanwhile, we propose that, through sufficient research and ethical considerations, personal counseling could be incorporated into the current academic training program of counselors.

The life story, anecdotes, and the contents and significance of the old book - Educational Tests and Statistics (the Republic of China edition) of the distinguished statistician Zhu Junyi were briefly introduced. He brought the concept of education statistics into China, emphasized the importance of intelligence test, and advocate teaching students in accordance of their intelligence. He contributed substantially to educational test.