The relationship between behaviours exhibited by children with autism and maternal stress

Tomanik, Stacey S.; Harris, G.F.; Hawkins, Jacqueline

doi:10.1080/13668250410001662892

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“…In addition, it is notable that neither adolescent intellectual functioning (as measured by scores on the KBIT-2) nor ASD symptomology (as measured by total score on the ADOS-G) were associated with parenting stress, parenting self-efficacy, or family chaos. This finding replicates earlier research which demonstrated no difference in parenting stress for parents of children with or without cognitive deficits (Davis and Carter 2008;Rao and Beidel 2009) or for parents of children with varying severity of social and communicative impairment (Tomanik et al 2004). The fact that parenting stress and self-efficacy do not appear related to these domains of child functioning highlights the need for parent involvement in treatment even when teens are classified as "higher-functioning," as was the case in the present study.…”

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Parent and Family Outcomes of PEERS: A Social Skills Intervention for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Hecke

Carson

et al. 2014

J Autism Dev Disord

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Raising a child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is associated with increased family chaos and parent distress. Successful longterm treatment outcomes are dependent on healthy systemic functioning, but the family impact of treatment is rarely evaluated. The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) is a social skills intervention designed for adolescents with high-functioning ASD. This study assessed the impact of PEERS on family chaos, parenting stress, and parenting self-efficacy via a randomized, controlled trial. Results suggested beneficial effects for the experimental group in the domain of family chaos compared to the waitlist control, while parents in the PEERS experimental group also demonstrated increased parenting self-efficacy. These findings highlight adjunctive family system benefits of PEERS intervention and suggest the need for overall better understanding of parent and family outcomes of ASD interventions.

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Parent and Family Outcomes of PEERS: A Social Skills Intervention for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Karst

Hecke

Carson

et al. 2014

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…In agreement with the literature we expected that: a) mothers of children with disability report greater distress than fathers (Gray, 1994;Hastings, 2003;Konstantareas, Homatidis, & Plowright, 1992;Milgram, & Atzil, 1998;Wolf, Noh, Fisman, et al, 1989); b) parents of older children manifest a higher level of family stress than parents of younger children (Donenberg, & Baker, 1993;Bromley et al, 2004;Lecavalier et al, 2006;Tomanik et al, 2004); c) between the predictors of the family functioning there are: the presence of cohesion, adaptability, the small hallway and enmeshment. The instruments were administered during working hours in the cooperatives, providing, through an information letter, a brief description of the investigation carried out, and specifying the scientific nature and general objectives of the research.…”

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Family functioning and disability: a study on Italian parents with disabled children

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Pellerone²,

Pacea³

et al. 2016

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The family of disabled persons often goes through periods of instability and mismatch; the birth of disabled children may affect communication, problem solving, satisfaction and general family functioning. The present study aims to explore the perception that both parents of disabled children have of their family functioning, measuring: the dynamics of the familiar functioning; the perception that the parental couple has about parenting and family functioning; the similarities between fathers and mothers in the perception of these dimensions. The research involved 50 parent couples (age: M=50.84; S.D=7.23), who have 100 disabled children. They completed: Family Assessment Device (Epstein, Baldwin, & Bishop, 1983) to assess specific aspects of family functioning, such as problem solving, communication, roles, affective response and involvement, behavioral control and general functioning; Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (Olson, 2011), to measure family adaptability and cohesion. The parents of disabled daughters showed significantly higher on following scales: cohesion, communication and satisfaction. In contrast, the parents who have male sons showed high scores in the scale of flexibility. Parents of children with autism reported higher scores than the parents of children with pervasive developmental disorders in the following scales: cohesion, communication and satisfaction. The results suggest that family functioning when there is a disabled child might be affected by child's gender and disability. Among the research limits there are the lack of a representative sample and the absence of a longitudinal study. In future studies, it is expected an evaluation of triadic family functioning to examine intergenerational differences in perception of family dynamics.

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“…Fiske (2009) found that higher parental ratings of child externalizing behaviours were a significant contributor to stress in mothers and fathers of children with autism. Lecavalier et al (2005) also found a significant correlation between child behaviour problems and parental stress, and Tomanik et al (2004) found that child maladaptive behaviour accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in a measure of maternal stress.…”

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The Factors Predicting Stress, Anxiety and Depression in the Parents of Children with Autism

Falk

Norris

Quinn

2014

J Autism Dev Disord

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The relationship between behaviours exhibited by children with autism and maternal stress

Cited by 332 publications

References 12 publications

Parent and Family Outcomes of PEERS: A Social Skills Intervention for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Parent and Family Outcomes of PEERS: A Social Skills Intervention for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Family functioning and disability: a study on Italian parents with disabled children

The Factors Predicting Stress, Anxiety and Depression in the Parents of Children with Autism

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