Objective To analyze the psychological change of mothers with autism spectrum disorders(ASD) children in semi-structural psychological process,in order to provide references for improving the negative mood of mothers with autistic children employing group intervention. Methods The research analyed words and phrases from recorded transcript of group consulting record data of four mothers with autistic children from Shanghai and Taizhong.Mothers participated in semi-structural supportive group for twelve times with ninety minutes each time,consultion recording data during four time periods,including first section(the 1st~4th week),middle section(the 5th~8th week),last section(the 9th~12th week) and twelve months after therapy were analyzed by using the simplified Chinese version of the quantifying trend words and phrases analytic software "linguistic inquiry and word count,LIWC 2007 (Pennebaker,2007)". Results From the first section to the last section,the four mothers with autistic children who participated in the group consultation showed a gradual decrease of negatively emotional words.In the middle section,more words of concerning positively about themselves were used in those mothers including work,personal achievement and family.In the last section,more words regarding recreation or improving life quality from those mothers were heard.The differences were statistically significant on mental lexicon and care and love lexicon of mothers (t=3.758,3.794,P<0.05).The score of Autistic Children's Behavior Rating Scale(ABC)before and after intervention was significantly different (t=-3.100,P<0.05). Conclusion Supportive groups intervention can help effectively increase the coadaptation of ASD children and their mothers,and reduce children's behavior problems.Also,mothers with ASD children will construct a new self-identity,reduce the sense of uncertainty,and improve mental health through this intervention.
Key words
autism /
text analysis /
group intervention /
mood /
linguistic inquiry and word count
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