The Effectiveness of Group Logo therapy on the Meaning of Life and Family Functioning in Autistic Children Mothers

This present study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of group Logo Therapy in Autistic Children' Mothers on meaning of life and family function .Statistic population included all mothers of autistic children in Beh-Ara Autism Center referred to the vote in February and March 2017 respectively. The mothers criteria of the sample using a convenience sampling method, a total of 20 people were selected as sample and randomly divided into control and experimental groups were housed. Research design was pretest-post-test design with control group and follow-up. The "purpose in life (PIL)" and ''family function (FAD)" questionnaire was used as research tools. Based on the educational group logo therapy sessions over eight sessions at ninety minutes and held twice a week. At 4 weeks after the intervention, both groups were assessed and within five weeks of follow-up test after test run was performed. In order to analyze the data of mixed analysis of variance was used. Results showed that there were significant differences in the mean scores of experimental and control groups and group logo therapy enhances family function and the meaning of life and improve the performance of mothers of children with autism in the treatment group compared with the control group (P