FEELINGS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL LONELINESS AMONG PARENTS OF CHILDREN PEOPLE WITH AUTISM DISORDER - A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

1 Institute of Graduate Studies for Children, Ain Shams University. Head of Department of Clinical Psychology

2 Faculty of Arts, University of Damietta.

Abstract

The care of the handicapped child is not an easy and simple task for the family. It presents it to a variety of different psychological pressures, and it destroys the expectations and loss of self-confidence. It threatens the psychological and family building and opens the door to psychological conflicts, which negatively affects all members of the family and makes them in an unbalanced state. Natural and disabilities that hinder the family psychologically and is one of the most dangerous and most resistant to treatment and an impact on the psychological state of parents is the disorder of autism,Many parents of autistic children work to isolate themselves and their families and their children from the community for fear of raising the problems that may be caused by their child challenged with the surrounding society, and the most prominent problems faced by the parents of children with autism in general the sense of psychological unity, which exacerbates crises Marital, increased aggression, depression, guilt, anxiety, tension, and isolation from people, as well as the material difficulties they face in caring expenses.
 
 

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