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The experience of parents with an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) can be devastating. Parents and families have to cope with the compound, demanding situation in their life. The presence of pervasive and severe deficits in children with ASD increases the adjusting demands of parent’s in their life situations. Those coping with life complexity with the parents of ASD nudge them into stress later into distress slowly incapacitates them that of their efficiency to deal with this situation. These parents are found with disturbances in their psychological parameters such as social, sexual, economic, and emotional. Perhaps this shatters them from their interpersonal relationship and family life. Indeed, these aspects of parental distress stand lower in position, and the focus goes with the treatment of ASD. Thus, the management of ASD by these parents to their deficit child capacitating to reach their fullest abilities remains questionable. Thus, there is a need for intervention of autistic children with a peripheral focus on psychological parameters of parents of ASD. This review study focuses on division of attention required for the treatment of ASD towards the child with autism and the parents who manage them
The Assessment of Intervention Programs for Autism Including Children and their Parents
American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research, 2019
Abstract This is a review study regarding intervention programs for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from a family concept including both children with autism and their parents, because parents are considered essential parts for the successfulness of any intervention programs. ASD is considered to be a long-term neurodevelopmental disorder that is a long-standing problem in the context of social communication and interaction and the dominance of limited, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests or activities. Intervention programs aim to help ASD patients, especially in the early stages of development. Another objective is to involve the parents of children with ASD in order to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of these interventions. Reviewing the literature has shown that parental involvement reduces stress.
Objectives: This study aimed to develop a modulated program of parenting skills and to evaluate its effectiveness in reducing autistic symptoms and increasing parental adjustment. Methods: This quasi-experimental study utilized in two phases, a pretest-posttest design and a control group. First, a treatment program with both individual and group structure was constructed considering available treatments such as cognitive–behavior therapy, social stories, and play therapy catered to autistic children and the needs of their families. The program consisted of techniques such as acceptance, common cognitive errors challenge, control of thoughts, emotions and behavior, the principles of reward and punishment, and crisis management etc. The validity of the program was confirmed by four experts. Secondly, 26 volunteer qualified couples selected from the parents were referred to a rehabilitation center in Tehran, and were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. The pretest was performed for all participants. Then, the control group was kept away from the program during the 10 sessions of group, four sessions of individual, and two sessions of family therapy for each couple in the experiment group.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023
Background: This study was conducted on a 3-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with average compliance and average perceptive language skills. Delayed developmental milestones observed and concerned. Case Presentation: The case was started on May 2014 and intensive therapy was provided for a period of 11 months. Then, monitoring of case was done for about 5 years till December 2019. The intervention plan was an integrated approach of Psychologist, Speech Language Pathologist, and Physiotherapist and Sensory integration specialist and mainly inclusive of parents in treatment protocol. Acknowledging the importance of parents in therapy, Parents integrated protocol was included which was a new advanced therapy. Results: There is no scientific evidence of this approacha positive outcome and a notable successintervention-(1) reduced stress levels and economical struggle for parents and reduced anxiety in child. (2) Improve child-parent relationship and developing home environment into therapy-based atmosphere. (3) Educating parents to improve their compliance over the difficulties of child and able to help them in supporting the daily activities. (4) Ability to face the social disturbances and balance their emotions to face obstacles. Conclusion: The findings suggest that Parent Integrated Therapy Approach (PITA) with the help of didactic teaching therapy impacts child development in more advanced manner and more chances of child approaching to normal schooling.
The accurate diagnosis and subsequent advice and support for the parents of a child diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are crucial in ensuring that the child's specific needs are appropriately met, both before and after the child enters formal schooling. This article addresses three issues – difficulties experienced by such parents; their comprehension of autism and what is needed in order to cope effectively; and how professional intervention pertinent to School-Based Family Counseling (SBFC) can be of help. The first two issues are addressed through a qualitative research investigation, with data collected by means of personal interviews with parents. The results indicate that parents often do not initially understand the lifelong nature of autism; they do not know how to adjust their family lives to meet the needs of the autistic child and other children in the family; and they are often overwhelmed by how to manage their ASD child. Therefore they are in need of professional intervention. In addressing such need for professional help, this article considers how it can be provided through SBFC.
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, 2018
This study aimed to develop a modulated program of parenting skills and to evaluate its effectiveness in reducing autistic symptoms and increasing parental adjustment. Methods: This quasi-experimental study utilized in two phases, a pretest-posttest design and a control group. First, a treatment program with both individual and group structure was constructed considering available treatments such as cognitive-behavior therapy, social stories, and play therapy catered to autistic children and the needs of their families. The program consisted of techniques such as acceptance, common cognitive errors challenge, control of thoughts, emotions and behavior, the principles of reward and punishment, and crisis management etc. The validity of the program was confirmed by four experts. Secondly, 26 volunteer qualified couples selected from the parents were referred to a rehabilitation center in Tehran, and were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. The pretest was performed for all participants. Then, the control group was kept away from the program during the 10 sessions of group, four sessions of individual, and two sessions of family therapy for each couple in the experiment group. Results: Univariate analysis of Covariance showed that the program significantly improved marital adjustment in parents (F=22.018, P=0.001), and successfully reduced the symptoms of autistic disorder in social interaction (F=5.733, P=0.027) and relations (F=10.07, P=0.005). However, it did not significantly affect stereotyped behaviors (F=4.304, P=0.053) and development (F=0.448, P=0.511) of autistic children in the experimental group. Discussion: The compiled parenting program is recommended to improve parental empowerment for the families of autistic children, because it is capable of reducing autistic symptoms in social interaction and relationships as well as improving marital adjustment in such families.
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This paper draws attention to the stress levels and coping strategies used, in the families of children with autism. Differences in the stressors perceived and coping strategies adopted by the father, mother and siblings of a child with autism have been discussed. Given that pre-intervention parental stress levels predict the success of early intervention programmes and determine the prognosis, the paper highlights the importance as well as the lack of providing psychosocial support to the families of children with autism. The authors have illustrated various ways of delivering effective support services for parents. The article progresses from childcentred, professional dependence for service delivery to developing strategies that are family centred and encourage active participation of parents of children with autism themselves. The paper also draws attention to the prevailing scenario of autism in India.