自閉兒童父母의 스트레스 解消에 관한 硏究

Abstract

It is serious problem that parents feel stress from their child. Specially, if the child has a handicap, the problem is more. It is highly possible that the stress of parents have a bad influence on the rehabilitation of the handicapped child and it can break their domestic happiness. It is a hard fact that the parents of an autistic child experience more stress than the parents of other handicapped child. Because the autism appears 2 or 3 years after birth, the parents expected a normal child have definitely shocked than the parents of other handicapped child. In the past, we've studied the autistic child placing emphasis on education for remedy. But we've taken the first step approaching in the aspect of the social welfare, since the category of the handicapped included the autistic child in the welfare law, revised January 1, 2001, for the disabled. So, this research is a help to the remedy for the autistic child and the sound family as analyzing the stress which the parents experience by their autistic child to economic, educational, social and psychological aspect and showing some solutions. First of all, the parents experience economical stress were to be clear in the lower income bracket. Apart from the difficulty of domestic economy, it is were serious stress to the parents that there's not any basic systems of government for its solution. Accordingly, the practical support is to be necessary. Many parents just let their autistic child alone without thinking of the special education for them, as the expense for rehabilitation is so much. But the government have to expand the social support for that child and make the autistic child be educated without any burden in spite of their low income. In case of preschooler, the support is urgent because the early education at the time of finding the autism can minimize the handicap and maximize the effect of social adaptation. Then, it is necessary for the parents experience educational stress to be educated with foundation knowledge of the autism and the ability to deal with that child. There are so many cases that most of parents just think their child for native and let alone though they become find the autism of their child. Really the parents need to learn the foundation knowledge of the autism and the ability to deal with that child through social welfare facilities in advance. In addition to that, middle and high school students also have to learn the common sense of the handicap in the curriculum. Also, it can be a solving method the parents' stress that the autistic child stands for himself through a hiring policy for the handicapped child with vocational education and development and grows as an adaptable child to society. And the social stress mostly begins at the parents' isolation because of their autistic child. For solving this stress, the parents must be able to enjoy their social life through actively participating the social meetings, to settle their stress by organizing the group of the parents with the same handicapped child as Self-Help Group and to share knowledge helping the remedy and rehabilitation of the autistic child. To the end, it's the psychological stress. It is necessary to activate the counsel program for the parents which have the autistic child. Accordingly, the special counsel program as individual counsel, group counsel, family therapy, psychotherapy have to be developed soon. It can be also a cause of stress that there's no consultation office. Actually, it's not familiar for the parents to visit at the consultation office for themselves. So, the active counsel is essential by establishing the consultation office attached to the special education center for the autistic child.