Explorations On The Negative Emotions Of Parents In Autistic Children

In recent years, our government pays more attention to the autistic children and the study about autistic children is also gradually increasing, which has aroused the attention of all circles of the society.While there are few researches on the parents of the autistic children and there and few people can pay attention to them. According to the latest figures of the international organization, there are about 1.6 million autistic children in China. If one autism child has two parents, our country may have 3.2 million autistic parents. Due to the particularity of autism and long-term, they not only are the first teacher of their child but also the inspirational teacher to their child. Moreover, they play the role of a bridge and link in their child’s communication and interactive with the outside world, so they play a very important role in the process of rehabilitating and training.This research is based on my observations and internship experiences in Xi’an XX specific educational institutions, through questionnaire survey and semistructured interviews, investigating the parents of autistic children in the specific institutions. So as to know their negative emotion which appeared in the process of taking care of their child and what effect the negative emotion has on themselves. Meanwhile, analyzes the causes of the survey results and make an needs assessment. On this basis, using Albert Ellis’rational-emotive therapy theory and the professional methods and techniques of social work to help them overcome their negative emotions and set up a good and healthy attitude.Studies have shown that in the process of taking care of autism children, the parents of autism children widespread negative, pessimistic, helpless and desperate emotions, which not only direct influences the effect of recovery training but also causes inconvenience to their work and life, serious can impairs their physical and mental health. Therefore, this study hopes that using some methods and theories of social work to resolve the negative emotions of the parents of autism children and help them set up a good and health attitude, which can make them self-regulation and dredge the negative emotion and with a positive attitude about any difficulties and challenges.