Comparison the Effectiveness of Autism Integrated Treatment Program with Family and Multiple Special Skills Training on Self-Concept in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy

Sara Taremi ¹ , Abdolhassan Farhangi ² , Mohammad Bagher Hobi ³ , Zahra Abbaspour Azar ⁴

1 - PhD student, Department of Psychology, North Tehran Branch, Salami Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2021-05-24 Accepted : 2021-07-18 Published : 2022-05-22

Keywords: self-concept, autism spectrum disorder, Autism Integrated with Family, Multiple Special Skills,

Abstract :

Purpose: Considering the role and importance of mothers in caring of children with autism spectrum disorder, the present research was conducted with the aim of comparison the effectiveness of autism integrated treatment program and multiple special skills training on self-concept in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. Methodology: This study was semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and one-month follow-up with control group. The population research was mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder of Tehran city in 2019 year, which 45 people of them were selected by the available sampling method and randomly replaced in three equal groups. The first experimental group received the autism integrated treatment program with family and the second experimental group received the multiple special skills training for 9 sessions of 90 minutes and the control group did not receive training. The research tool was the self-concept scale (Beck & et al, 1990) and data were analyzed by methods of repeated measures analysis of variance and Bonferroni post hoc test in SPSS-22 software. Findings: The findings showed that both methods of autism integrated treatment program and multiple special skills training in compared to the control group increased the self-concept of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder and the results were maintained in the follow-up phase (P<0.05). In addition, the autism integrated treatment program with family in compared to the multiple special skills training increased their self-concept (P˂0.05). Conclusion: Due to the effectiveness of both methods and the greater effectiveness of autism integrated treatment program with family, counselors and therapists can use this method along with other effective treatments methods to improve the self-concept of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder.