Abstract
This research is conducted through quasi - experimental research methodology. The purpose is to study the anxiety of parents of children with autism and to compare pre-and post the results of group counseling. The target groups in this research are parents of children with autism from the Autistic Research Center and KhonKaen Autism Parents Association. The representative sample populations are the parents of children with autism from Autistic Research Center and KhonKaen Autism Parents Association who answered the anxiety questionnaires and volunteers conducted the group counseling. The total sampled population is 20 people divided into two groups, a control group and a sample group. The assessment instruments used in this research are the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) from Steilberger's questionnaires and the program of group counseling, the Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Signed- Ranks Test and The Mann – Whitney U Test. Results of this research after group counseling intervention showed a decreased level of anxiety in the parents of children with autism with a statistical significance of .05.
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