Fateme Mazaheri Tehrani; Saed Ghanbari; Jalil Fathabadi; Omid Shokri; Masoud Sharifi
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IntroductionLearning disorders are one of the considerable topics in educational psychology. Children with learning disabilities experience more emotional problems than their peers. Hence, there will be more challenges for the parents of these children, which can add to the complexity of the parenting ...
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IntroductionLearning disorders are one of the considerable topics in educational psychology. Children with learning disabilities experience more emotional problems than their peers. Hence, there will be more challenges for the parents of these children, which can add to the complexity of the parenting experience. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the main elements in the lived experience of mothers of children with learning disabilities of the emotional and behavioral problems of their children. MethodIn this research, the phenomenological research method was used to investigate the lived experience of mothers of children with learning disabilities to cope with their children's emotional-behavioral problems. Therefore, among the clients of learning disability treatment centers in Tehran, to the point of saturation, 14 mothers of children with learning disabilities participated in in-depth and semi-structured interviews; After recording and transcribing the interviews, the data was analyzed by the Colaizzi method.ResultsIn the analysis of descriptive codes of interviews, 137 primary concepts were extracted. Combining similar concepts created 31 sub-concepts and 7 main concepts. The 7 main concepts are; Social Communication Impairment, Marital Relationship Impairment, Challenging Parenting, Inefficient Education System, Decrease in psychologically rich life, Experience of Negative Emotions, and Physical-Psychological Problems. DiscussionThe concepts found in the study showed that mothers of children with learning disabilities face many difficulties due to their children's academic and emotional-behavioral problems that lead to the experience of feelings of burnout in parenting and require social and clinical attention.
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Nowadays, importance of attention to couples with developmental disorders is clear to family therapists. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Family Consolidated Treatment of Autistic Disorders (FCTAD) on marital satisfaction of couples with autistic children and comparing it ...
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Nowadays, importance of attention to couples with developmental disorders is clear to family therapists. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Family Consolidated Treatment of Autistic Disorders (FCTAD) on marital satisfaction of couples with autistic children and comparing it with Little Bird program. 42 couples with autistic children were selected, using accessible method, from Tehran Autism and Ava centers and divided to three groups, using random method. Measuring device was ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Inventory. Data were analyzed using MANCOVA and ANOVA, and showed that the differences of FCTAD with the other two groups on considering child, conflict, friends, leisure time (between subjects variables) sub-scales and the total score of Marital Satisfaction Inventory were significant. These significant differences remained unchanged till follow up (occurred one month after the last session of the program). Findings showed that FCTAD program can be considered as a flexible program, which adjusts itself to specific characteristics of each family, so is useful in increasing marital satisfaction of parents with autistic children.
