Effectiveness of Positive Psychotherapy in Parenting Stress and Family Satisfaction among Mothers of Children with Autism

Abstract

Parenting stress can cause psychological changes such as anxiety and failure to assume the maternal role, which affects family satisfaction. The present study used a classic experimental design with a pretest and post-test and a control group. The convenience sampling method was employed to randomly select 40 individuals, who were then equally divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent fourteen sessions (90-minute sessions per week) of positive psychotherapy. The results indicated that positive psychotherapy had significant effects on the improvement of parenting stress and family satisfaction (p < 0.001) in the experimental group at the post-test stage.

Keywords:

• Autism
• family satisfaction
• mothers
• parenting stress
• positive psychotherapy

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Funding

None.