دانلود Group Counseling for Reducing the Anxiety in Parents of Children with Autism

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  Khon  Kaen  Autism  Parents  Association.  The  representative sample  populations  are  the  parents  of  children  with  autism  from  Autistic  Research  Center  and  Khon  Kaen  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.