Parent Partnership: Towards a Constructional Approach to Improving the Life of Parents with Children with Autism
Description:
Parents with children diagnosed with autism face a variety of stressors. The typical approach to dealing with these stressors is pathological which focuses on the problem by attempting to eliminate or alleviate the stressors through counseling, behavioral therapy, tutoring, and/or drugs. The purpose of the current study was to assess an alternative approach, a constructional one, which focuses on solutions by teaching 3 parents to analyze their life, formulate goals, and develop programs to re…
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Date:
August 2015
Creator:
Liden, Timothy Allen
Partner:
UNT Libraries