FILIAL THERAPY UNTUK MENURUNKAN STRESS PENGASUHAN PADA IBU DENGAN ANAK YANG TERDIAGNOSA AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

Parents with children diagnosed with autism are vulnerable to parenting stress. Stress in parents occurs because of different demands from the environment and the resources and coping mechanisms that parents have to change their children to their original condition. Filial Therapy is a therapeutic intervention that aims to improve parent-child relationships and provide parenting skills through non-directive play. The research subjects were mothers of children with ASD who have a more significant parenting role. This research aims to see the impact of filial Therapy on parenting stress in mothers with children with ASD. The research design will be quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest control group design approach. The number of subjects in the study was ten mothers who had children with ASD with moderate parenting stress. Research subjects were divided into two groups: the experimental group (n=5) and the control group (n=5). The instruments used were the Indonesian version of the parenting stress scale and the autism spectrum rating scale (ASRS). The data analysis technique used was the Wilcoxon test to determine differences in pretest-posttest results in each research group and the Mann-Whitney test to determine differences between groups after the intervention. The study results showed a decrease in parenting stress in the experimental group after the filial therapy intervention. This intervention is effective to decrease in parenting stress in mother with the children who diagnosed autism spectrum disorder.