إستراتيجيات التعامل لدى أولياء الأطفال التوحديين : نموذج برنامج إرشادي أسري مقترح
The study aims to identify the extent to which a proposed family counseling program contributes to developing coping strategies for parents with their autistic children, assessing their skills in interacting with their children, and studying their differences on the scale of coping. Follow the experimental approach that targeted: (15) father and mother of an autistic child, whose children range in age (4-10 years), registered in the psycho-pedagogical center for mentally handicapped children in Oran. A standardized coping strategies scale (CISS) was used on the Algerian environment (CRASC 2006), and its dimensions and paragraphs were re-modified by the researcher. In addition, an instructional program was built that measures parents’ treatment of their autistic children, consisting of (15) counseling sessions. The results of the study reported an increase in the level of parents ’skills in dealing with their children and showed their positive appreciation, and their scores increased on the scale used in the post application, by employing the positive strategies of: (changing the position, solving the problem, cognitive reconstruction of the situation), and they showed acceptance of their children's unifying behavior. (Published abstract)