مستوى الضغوط النفسية لدى أم الطفل المصاب بطيف التوحد واستراتيجيات مواجهتها

In our current study, we seek to identify the level of psychological stress and to reveal the nature of coping strategies employed by the mother of a child with autism, and we have relied on the clinical approach that was applied to the sample, where the sample of the exploratory study consisted of three cases, whose ages ranged between (34- -45 years). As for the tools of the study, psychological stress was measured in the families and the coping measure of Paulhan et al. (Poulhan et al). Our current study concluded:

The level of psychological stress among mothers of children with autism spectrum is high through the application of the psychological stress scale for families with disabilities, as it ranged from (144 to 136) degrees.

Keywords: Psychological stress; autism spectrum; strategies.