Parenting Across South American and African Societies

Book Abstract

The present study is aimed at exploring the coping styles adopted by parents to handle the demands of this diagnosis for their children. To understand the parental coping style of Iranian parents who are care giving for their off spring with ASD, a mixed-method approach is considered in which deep interview and self-report question naires were used. In all ,43 parents were recruited from different services for individuals with ASD across Tehran. The findings howed that ASD had multiple impacts on Iranian parents?general well-being. They also used less effective coping styles to meet the associated demands of care giving for a child with ASD. These impacts were similar to reported findings for parents in other countries, but there were some special features of parenting that might be rooted in the Iranian culture or special contexts such as limitation of the formal and informal supports and services.