Evaluation effectiveness of the family-based program of the management on Behavioral Excesses with children autism

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors

1 shahid beheshti

2 department of psychology and education, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

3 mohaghegh ardebili

Abstract

Parent-mediated interventions are considered an effective way to treat children with autism Most of these interventions focus on the social-communicative deficits of these children, and less study is focused on Behavioral Excesses. To overcome this need, a Family-Based Intervention for the management of Behavioral Excesses was developed. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of this program on a group of parents of children with autism. This study was a single-subject design. Three children with autism disorder were selected using the convenience sampling method. Parents of all three children received 10 individual sessions of the Family Based program for the management of behavioral excessive in autism.
Evaluations were Completed in 9 stages (3 baseline evaluations, 5 evaluations during treatment and 1 follow up evaluation). The instrument used in this study was the Repetitive Behavior Scale- Revise, Autism treatment evaluation checklist and The Aberrant Behavior Checklist. Visual analysis and effect size were used to analyze the data. The results of the study showed that Behavioral Excesses (such as Stereotyped, Self-Injurious, Compulsive, Ritualistic, Sameness, Restricted behaviors) have decreased and adaptive behaviors (such as Speech/ communication, Sociability, Sensory/cognitive awareness, Health/physical/behavior (have increased. Also, the effect size showed that this training program is effective on the improvement of Behavioral Excesses on autistic children. The results of this study support the effectiveness of the family-based program for the management of Behavioral Excesses in autism. It is recommended that this program be used as an early intervention for the treatment of autism disorder and with the aim of transferring treatment of autism from centered-based to family-based.

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