The Effect of Instructing Negative Emotion Management Skills on the Parent's Anxiety Thoughts with Autistic Children

The purpose of the present research was a review of the effect of instructing negative emotion management skills on parents’ anxiety thoughts with autistic children. Method of research was quasi-experimental, and its type is a pretest-posttest design without control group. Population of the study consisted of all parents of children with pervasive developmental disorders in the “Zehne Ziba” Medical Center in Hamedan, that their number was 80. Initially, they asked parents by invitation, if they would be interested in attending to training courses in workshops of training negative emotion management, and they declared their readiness. Then, volunteer parents were assessed by the tests of anxiety thoughts, and were present parents with anxiety thoughts in this study which their number was 40. In this study anxiety thoughts questionnaire of Wells were used. The results showed that negative emotion management skills training were effective to reduce the parents’ anxiety thoughts with autistic children, and finally they were confirmed.