The Parent Interaction Assessment, in Children with Autism, to Help the Short Therapeutic Counseling

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to propose a method of complementary data unification obtained through both direct observation and themes in parents’ narratives about autism. Sixty children with autism were studied in indirect therapeutic consultation with parents. Methods used: review of a direct parent-child interaction observation, content analysis, and interpretive phenomenological analysis of the main themes that emerged in the process of interaction with mothers and fathers of autistic children. The independent variable are the themes that we output with a contrarian analysis are the behavioural aspects of the interaction. The results identified the main subjective themes for parents—aggression, rejection, future, isolation, hopelessness. In the control sheets stand out not calling the child by name, talking sharply to the child, hiding for him and on him, low emotional expression to the child and difficulties with the level of affection and symbiosis. In summary, we can say that the simultaneous reporting of objective facts from direct observation, combined with giving space and understanding the unconscious fantasies of the parent shared in the speech, is a method of improving the skills of brief therapeutic counselling techniques in the interaction of parents and children with autism.