Understanding Autism Research Paper
Understanding Autism: How Family Therapists Can Support Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Alexandra H. Solomon & Beth Chung
The article, “Understanding Autism: How Family Therapists Can Support Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders”, contains the researches about the Autism, and the solutions to improve the life of children with Autism between family therapists and their parents. “The number of children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has increased dramatically in the last 20 years” (Solomon & Chung, 2012, p.250). For example, there is “one in every 91 children in the US has been diagnosed with an ASD” (Kogan et al., 2009). In fact, this disorder can cause a lot of disability or symptoms …show more content…
for children; make their life become harder. Therefore, parents and family therapists need to get together and find the way to stop it as soon as possible, so those children can grow up normally without any difficulties.
The article conducted that parents, who have the children with ASD, encounter a lot of stresses when raising them.
The rate of divorce among those parents also is twice higher than normal. The children with autism can’t describe and show what they actually need to their parents; they are playing a guess game together. After the period of time, parents will feel that they don’t understand their own children, and become really frustrated about their children, and even with their partner. If that situation keeps happening for a long time, the divorcement will be the only solution for them to get out of those troubles.
There is a guideline that can help the family therapists when working with parents who have the children with ASD. It is divided into 4 sections. The first section includes the information about autism. The second section mentions about the obstacles that parents might face when they try to solve this disease. The third section provides some of comprehensive treatment plans for the family and the child with autism. The last section guides the family therapists how to “work with action, meaning, and emotion” to connect parents and children …show more content…
together. In the first section, the research defines that “the children with autism nearly always, if not always, present with sensory problems such as high pain tolerance, auditory hypersensitivity, and tactile defensive, and they may exhibit sensory seeking behaviors such as crashing, squeezing, spinning and flapping” (Solomon & Chung, 2012, p.252).
Some other children also have sleeping disorders, and food allergies, diarrhea, etc. These symptoms are really serious when they grow up, and become the adult. There are many gun shots have been happening around some of public school in the US related to the children with autism disease. It seems like they are out of control their mind. In fact, this disease is caused by two factors: genes, and environment. If the child was born and carries the gene with autism, he/she has the bullet in the gun. Then, when they live in the environment that isolates them from other people, they will have a chance to pull the trigger.
In the next section, they talk about how difficult the parents will face when helping their children get out of that disease. One of those troubles is “the gap between the time when parents knew and the time when the doctor knew” (Solomon & Chung, 2012, p.254). In fact, a lot of doctor can’t diagnose if the children have autism or not. Many of them have given the wrong answer for the parents, and made them confused in finding the solutions for their
children.
In the third section, the researcher mentions about the comprehensive treatment plans which is also called “the three legs stool” for the parents. It includes traditional therapies, biomedical interventions, and emotional support for family. These three legs help parents and children with autism get back the balance of their life. In the detail, the traditional therapies will help the children get the opportunities to “gain social, relational, play, and academic skills” by creating the small group of people and work for many hours a week. Secondly, biomedical interventions will prevent the children from the biochemical problems. Finally, the emotional support for family mainly depends on the therapists who can give parents some helps to balance those two legs above. If they can work together perfectly, the chance of children to get out of the ASD and become normal is much higher.
In the conclusions, the family therapists are the ones who have the good knowledge and abilities to help parents of children with autism stay connected with each other. They are likely to “hold multiple dialectics: hope and despair, perfection and disability, acceptance and fight, shame and pride, selfishness and selflessness” (Solomon & Chung, 2012, p.261). Therefore, the support with action, meaning, and emotion from family therapists are more than important to help parents feel better about their children.
References
Solomon H.A., & Chung B. (2012). Understanding Autism: How Family Therapists Can Support Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Family Process, 51(2), 250-261.
Alexandra H. Solomon & Beth Chung
The article, “Understanding Autism: How Family Therapists Can Support Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders”, contains the researches about the Autism, and the solutions to improve the life of children with Autism between family therapists and their parents. “The number of children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has increased dramatically in the last 20 years” (Solomon & Chung, 2012, p.250). For example, there is “one in every 91 children in the US has been diagnosed with an ASD” (Kogan et al., 2009). In fact, this disorder can cause a lot of disability or symptoms …show more content…
for children; make their life become harder. Therefore, parents and family therapists need to get together and find the way to stop it as soon as possible, so those children can grow up normally without any difficulties.
The article conducted that parents, who have the children with ASD, encounter a lot of stresses when raising them.
The rate of divorce among those parents also is twice higher than normal. The children with autism can’t describe and show what they actually need to their parents; they are playing a guess game together. After the period of time, parents will feel that they don’t understand their own children, and become really frustrated about their children, and even with their partner. If that situation keeps happening for a long time, the divorcement will be the only solution for them to get out of those troubles.
There is a guideline that can help the family therapists when working with parents who have the children with ASD. It is divided into 4 sections. The first section includes the information about autism. The second section mentions about the obstacles that parents might face when they try to solve this disease. The third section provides some of comprehensive treatment plans for the family and the child with autism. The last section guides the family therapists how to “work with action, meaning, and emotion” to connect parents and children …show more content…
together. In the first section, the research defines that “the children with autism nearly always, if not always, present with sensory problems such as high pain tolerance, auditory hypersensitivity, and tactile defensive, and they may exhibit sensory seeking behaviors such as crashing, squeezing, spinning and flapping” (Solomon & Chung, 2012, p.252).
Some other children also have sleeping disorders, and food allergies, diarrhea, etc. These symptoms are really serious when they grow up, and become the adult. There are many gun shots have been happening around some of public school in the US related to the children with autism disease. It seems like they are out of control their mind. In fact, this disease is caused by two factors: genes, and environment. If the child was born and carries the gene with autism, he/she has the bullet in the gun. Then, when they live in the environment that isolates them from other people, they will have a chance to pull the trigger.
In the next section, they talk about how difficult the parents will face when helping their children get out of that disease. One of those troubles is “the gap between the time when parents knew and the time when the doctor knew” (Solomon & Chung, 2012, p.254). In fact, a lot of doctor can’t diagnose if the children have autism or not. Many of them have given the wrong answer for the parents, and made them confused in finding the solutions for their
children.
In the third section, the researcher mentions about the comprehensive treatment plans which is also called “the three legs stool” for the parents. It includes traditional therapies, biomedical interventions, and emotional support for family. These three legs help parents and children with autism get back the balance of their life. In the detail, the traditional therapies will help the children get the opportunities to “gain social, relational, play, and academic skills” by creating the small group of people and work for many hours a week. Secondly, biomedical interventions will prevent the children from the biochemical problems. Finally, the emotional support for family mainly depends on the therapists who can give parents some helps to balance those two legs above. If they can work together perfectly, the chance of children to get out of the ASD and become normal is much higher.
In the conclusions, the family therapists are the ones who have the good knowledge and abilities to help parents of children with autism stay connected with each other. They are likely to “hold multiple dialectics: hope and despair, perfection and disability, acceptance and fight, shame and pride, selfishness and selflessness” (Solomon & Chung, 2012, p.261). Therefore, the support with action, meaning, and emotion from family therapists are more than important to help parents feel better about their children.
References
Solomon H.A., & Chung B. (2012). Understanding Autism: How Family Therapists Can Support Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Family Process, 51(2), 250-261.