Autism and the beleifs of carers

treatment of the person with the disability?

This essay will begin with a brief and general explanation of the learning disability to be discussed, which will be autism. After refreshing ourselves with the disability, there will be a summary debate of the most common beliefs and feelings that family carers will go through. These will show how the treatment of the child changes, as well as the essentially negative results. Using a simple and effective ‘bow-tie’ diagram, the power challenges within a household will be explained, then a following discussion on the process of family carers forming attributions and expectations of the child. The essay will conclude with the findings examined and my opinions expressed.

To start with, this essay is primary concerned with the parents, rather than siblings, as the family carers. This is because the parents make up the vast majority of the actually caring. Siblings do help out and have feelings and beliefs that may effect the offspring with learning disabilities

Overprotective – the child is wrapped up in cotton wool, handicaps are exaggerated and the parents concerns can be limitless. The child becomes fearful and has low self-esteem as the handicap is blown out of proportion.

Construct I’ve got to go along with him She’s doing what I want

These generals beliefs that the parents exhibit are all natural human feelings that may not be helped. Compared against the guidelines of treatment, the feelings obviously get in the way of not only how they treat the child, but also how the child responds to them emotionally. Children with autism do need structure and family carers need exceptionally high levels of patience. Break down of routines affects the child immensely and they may throw tantrums, this need to be dealt with professionally. Autistic children find it hard to understand emotions, so they need to be brought up in a well-balanced household, so they can make sense of it all. All the negative emotional responses stated above all contribute to the confusion felt by the child. There is also a fine line between keeping the routines, yet also breaking the children into new activities so they can gain appropriate self-reliance. Varying beliefs of the parent carers is extremely harmful to the learning processes that the child needs. Their treatment of the child is dominated by their emotional beliefs, although the autistic child may not pick up on all these feelings, their everyday life and therapy will be disturbed.

Confusion – the parents are concerned about the child but unsure how to deal with it; they become frustrated and have a sense of guilt and failure. The childs self-concept reflects their parents’ confusion.

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