ClaCos
Consensus on Social Cognition (ClaCos)
The ClaCoS is a clinical battery for assessing social cognition in adults, designed to objectively assess the social difficulties reported in psychiatry and to guide treatment. It combines a subjective measure and objective tasks exploring the main domains of social cognition: emotion recognition, social perception and knowledge, theory of mind and attributional style. It is particularly useful in adults with psychiatric disorders, especially schizophrenia spectrum disorders and autism spectrum disorder, but can also be used in other clinical or research contexts. Its main value lies in identifying a detailed functional profile that can be used directly for neuropsychological assessment, cognitive remediation, psychoeducation and therapeutic follow-up.
- Number of questions
- 124 questions
- Estimated duration
- 120 minutes
- Language
- English
- Original name
- Consensus on Social Cognition
- Target audience
- Adults
- Authors
- Collectif Clacos (2022)
- Category
- Autism spectrum, Psychotic disorders
Scoring & interpretation
Scoring is done by subtest, generally via the HTS platform. The ACSo provides a total score and subscores by process. The TREF provides an overall emotion recognition score, scores by emotion and, depending on the modality, detection thresholds. The PerSo produces interpretation scores with and without help as well as a comprehension score. The MASC provides a total score and types of mentalizing errors. The AIHQ-S provides hostility, attribution and aggression scores. Interpretation is based on analyzing the profile across tasks, comparing it with the available norms and integrating it with the clinical and neurocognitive data.
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