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

Ghodrati, Masoomeh; Hatami, Mohammad; Aghaei, Hakimeh

doi:10.22038/mjms.2021.61692.3611

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

Masoomeh Ghodrati ¹

Mohammad Hatami ²

Hakimeh Aghaei ³

¹ Phd. Student&sbquo; Department of Psychology, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University&sbquo; shahroud, Iran

² associate professor Department of Clinical Psychology, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

³ 3. Department of Psychology, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University&sbquo; Shahroud, Iran

10.22038/mjms.2021.61692.3611

Abstract

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. 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 using multivariate covariance statistical method 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. The scales of insecure attachment and social incompetence caused the thematic relationships of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders at the level of P <0.05, while the classic Pennsylvania prevention program had no significant effect on any of the thematic relationships.

Keywords

Pennsylvania prevention program

Iranian Islamic standards

objective relations

mothers

autism