The effect of Logotherapy on the midlife crisis of middle-aged parents with autistic children: Single case study
Subject Areas : Psychology
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Parents with autism children face many challenges and concerns. These concerns are more concerned with the child's future assessment and concern about the child's future and causes them to face a middle -aged crisis; Therefore, they need psychological interventions that increase their level of meaning and purpose in life; Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of Logotherapy on the crisis of the middle ages parenting with autism in October 2023 in Tabriz. This study was performed by a single case (A-B-A) by targeted sampling on four middle-aged parents with autism. Logotherapy intervention was implemented for 8 sessions 60 minute and its effectiveness on the crisis of the middle ages was evaluated. The crisis of the middle ages was evaluated by the Oles’s (1994) midlife crisis questionnaire. Data analysis was used by the percentage of overlapping data, the difference between the average base line, the percentage of the process of the trend line. The results showed that mean therapeutic intervention reduced the crisis of the middle ages parenting with autism (PND = 100). Also, the results of the follow -up test showed that the effects of the intervention continued after a month of implementation of the last therapeutic session.Therefore mental health professionals can use Logotherapy as one of the psychological treatments to improve the crisis of the middle ages of parents with autism.
