The Effectiveness of Self-Comassion Training on Increase of Mothers Resiliency with Autistic Children

Autistic spectrum disorder has been characterized by problem in social function, communication and having repetitive and sterotype behaviors. Due to ample problems of such children, families and particularly mothers suffer from much psychological pressures. The present research was designed and conducted by the aim of investigating the effect of self-comassion training on increase of mothers resiliency with autistic children. The present research was a semi- experimental intervention which was conducted by using a pretest – posttest with control group design. The research population included the mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder referring to Salamat–Andisheh rehabilitation center in Bushehr, whose children were diagnosed to have autism disorder by psychiatrist and clinical psychologist. 28 mothers with authistic children were selected by available sampling method and were assigned into experimental and control groups through random assignment method. For collecting the data, the Connor- Davidson Resiliency Scale (2003) was used. After taking the pretest, subjects of the experiment group received weekly 7 sessions of self-compassion in 1/5 hour while the control group did not receive any intervention. After finishing the sessions, the posttest was taken from both groups. The research data were analyzed by univariate covariance analysis test by using SPSS v23. The results of single–variable covariance analysis showed a significant difference in the resilience of the experimental and control group in the post- test (p<0/001). In the other words, teaching sessions increased the resilience of mothers with authistic children. According to the findings of this study self-compassion can be offered as an effective method to increase the resilience of mothers of children with autism

کلیدواژه ها:

Self-compassion ، Resiliency ، Autism spectrum disorder