| Summary: | Since psychological adaptation to knowledge that child suffers autism is multi-element process, its different features were estimated. Among them: reaction of mothers to a knowledge, relations within family, mothers concern about the future of her child, excessive expression of care of the child, need for help. Also the quality of life of mothers raising child with the autism was examined. During the investigation, a questionnaire prepared by L.Čečkauskienės and G.Gintilienės (1996) “Questionnaire on the impact of diagnosed permanent child disease to parents” was used. It was disseminated among mothers growing. Also questionnaire created by M.B. Frish (1994) “Questionnaire on quality of life”, which was disseminated among mothers growing children suffering from autism and mothers growing healthy children, was used.
It was proved, that mothers after the knowledge about autism diagnosis to their child, feel very embarrassed, deny such diagnosis, they are worrying about the future of their child. Results of investigation also shows, that relation within the family also are changing. Results of investigations on quality of life points out that for the quality of life for both, mothers growing children suffering from autism and mothers growing healthy ones, children, household, goals and worth are important. However, only mothers raising healthy children, express satisfaction about children and households. Mothers growing children suffering from autism, show their satisfaction to... [to full text]
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