Comparison of Effectiveness of Pennsylvania Prevention Program in Clasic Form and Pennsylvania Prevention Program in Accordance With Iranian Islamic Standards on Objective Relations in Mothers Of Children With Autism Specrtom Disorders

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Phd. Student‚ Department of Psychology, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University‚ shahroud, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Iran. (Corresponding Author)

3 Department of Psychology, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University‚ shahroud, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: Using programs and comparing them with each other according to ethnic cultural situations in most parts of the world is one of the researches considered by scientists. Therefore; the aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of the Pennsylvania prevention program in both classical and adapted to Iranian-Islamic criteria on the thematic relationships of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders.
Methods: For this purpose, among the mothers of students with autism spectrum disorders who had a file in Shahroud Rehabilitation Center and their autism was identified and registered by a psychiatrist, 45 volunteers were selected by availability and completely randomly. They were replaced in two intervention groups and one control group, so that each group included 15 people. The interventions were performed in five two-hour weekly sessions and participants answered the Bell Thematic Relationship Questionnaire before and after. Data analysis was performed using multivariate covariance statistical method.
Results: The results of the research showed that there is a significant difference between the effectiveness of these two methods of intervention on the thematic relationships of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders.
Conclusion: The Pennsylvania Prevention Program seems to be effective based on Iranian-Islamic criteria for insecure attachment scales and social incompetence Thematic relationships of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders.

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