| Currently,autism has already developed from a "rare disease" defined in its early years to a "common disease" now,becoming a common public health phenomenon.At the same time,social workers have found that the current rehabilitation training for school-age autistic children has not been able to fully restore their own abilities,leading to a risk of reducing the level of family coping difficulties and future risk resistance.In addition,few studies have been conducted on the improvement of overall family resilience in families with autistic children of school age,and no localized application models of family resilience have been summarized.This study takes the families of school-age autistic children in the A Institute of Autistic Children Special Education in Guiyang City as the research object,with the goal of improving the resilience of school-age autistic children’s families,and is committed to exploring practical ways to meet the needs of school-age autistic children’s families and solve their real problems.This study mainly uses the method of combining case work and group work.Firstly,using questionnaire survey and interview methods,we investigated 10 groups of families with school-age autistic children who have certain family resilience issues.We found that the families of school-age autistic children in institution A generally have insufficient family subjective beliefs and a sense of pessimism in life,unbalanced family relationships,and fuzzy subsystem boundaries The problem of ineffective communication among family members and family dysfunction.Further exploring the causes,it was found that factors such as high parenting pressure and negative attribution among children aggravate belief crisis,unreasonable family structure and family division of labor affect family relationships,and poor family communication and emotional repression cause communication problems.These factors lead to generally low family resilience among school-age autistic children.Therefore,in carrying out case practice work,social workers have selected representative families of twin autistic children,and by fully integrating ecosystem theory and family resilience theory,they have rebuilt the intervention framework for improving family resilience,gradually improving the family resilience of autistic children through three steps: rebuilding the family belief system,adjusting the internal structure of the family,and building the external system of the family,Pay full attention to the interaction between the internal and external systems of the family.In group work,we mainly use the family resilience theory under the guidance of the dominance perspective to intervene in group work for core family members in six groups of families,explore the strengths and potentials of family members,help strengthen the family belief system,explore family organizational models,promote positive family communication,and establish family resilience mutual support groups for families with school-age autistic children to expand social support networks.Through group work,exploring the advantages of families of school-age autistic children can also make up for the shortcomings in case work and promote family integration into society.After the completion of case and group practical intervention work,the assessment was conducted on whether the family resilience of autistic children had improved.The evaluation of this study indicates that the practical application of the theoretical model of family resilience is consistent with the urgent needs of families with autistic school-age children.The practical intervention framework constructed by researchers can effectively enhance the resilience of autistic children’s families,stimulate the vitality within the family,and enrich the practical path of case and group work methods.In addition,in response to the shortcomings of this study,the researcher proposed relevant reference suggestions from three aspects: improving the professional ability of family social workers and refining intervention programs,improving intervention mechanism based on the characteristics of families of school-age autistic children,and strengthening research on the development of family resilience theory intervention practices in the local context. |
