The Parent Interaction Assessment, in Children with Autism, to Help the Short Therapeutic Counseling

Ivanova Veronika

doi:10.4236/psych.2021.127065

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to propose a method of complementary data unification obtained through both direct observation and themes in parents’ narratives about autism. Sixty children with autism were studied in indirect therapeutic consultation with parents. Methods used: review of a direct parent-child interaction observation, content analysis, and interpretive phenomenological analysis of the main themes that emerged in the process of interaction with mothers and fathers of autistic children. The independent variable are the themes that we output with a contrarian analysis are the behavioural aspects of the interaction. The results identified the main subjective themes for parents—aggression, rejection, future, isolation, hopelessness. In the control sheets stand out not calling the child by name, talking sharply to the child, hiding for him and on him, low emotional expression to the child and difficulties with the level of affection and symbiosis. In summary, we can say that the simultaneous reporting of objective facts from direct observation, combined with giving space and understanding the unconscious fantasies of the parent shared in the speech, is a method of improving the skills of brief therapeutic counselling techniques in the interaction of parents and children with autism.

Highlights

The rationale for conducting this study lies in the idea that the early mother-baby relationship is important and crucial to the formation of the subject
The purpose of this study is to propose a method of complementary data unification obtained through both direct observation and themes in parents’ narratives about autism
Many feel rejected by their autistic children and in most of them there are fears of the future, death fantasies and that the KCA will do without the child, which should be processed in therapeutic communication

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Introduction

The rationale for conducting this study lies in the idea that the early mother-baby relationship is important and crucial to the formation of the subject. This study examined the unconscious side of these relationships, which is rarely. The literature on parent-child interactions in young children with autism has examined dyadic style, synchrony, and sustained engagement, the study of the unconscious part of the relationship, parental fantasy and hidden anxiety, has not been targeted (Freeman, 2013; Frey, 2011). In the mother-child study, when an autistic child is not speaking, the mother’s behaviour is strongly influenced by her fantasy world (Tendlarz, 1996). Direct observation and therapeutic consultation are necessary to improve parent-child interaction. Several authors emphasise the importance of the space created by the therapist, which allows listening to the mother’s narrative to therapeutically guide the relationship with the child. According to (Mahler, 1952), in the parent relationship-autistic child, there is a failure in the symbiotic phase, it raises its keys

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