Investigation of the effect of trying to teach children with autism the prerequisite skills of learning by their parents with floortime play therapy on their skills in the areas of autistic behavior and development and the stress levels of their parents

In this research, it is aimed to increase the solutions that can be effective for parents who mostly experience helplessness, inadequacy and/or burnout at the point of struggling with autism. Twelve session online psychoeducation was given to twenty volunteer parents of children with autism aged 2-8 years, and it was aimed to provide their children with the prerequisite skills of learning with the Floortime therapy model. Thus, it is possible to establish more effective communication between parents and children through play-based interaction ways, it is possible to acquire skills that are the prerequisite for learning with the established interaction, so that parents feel more competent in a spiritual sense; It includes the application of a psychoeducational model in which the stress levels of family members are minimized and their quality of life is increased. Parents were asked to fill in the "Parental Stress Scale (PSS)" as the first and last test, and the "ABC Autism Behavior Checklist" as the first and last test for children with autism, by both special education teachers and families. As a result, as a result of the psychoeducation received by the parents, the Autism Behavior Control (ABC) List, sensory subscale, relationship building subscale, body and object use subscale, language skills subscale, and social and self-care subscale of the teachers and parents of children with autism were pretested and It was seen that there was a positive and significant difference between the post-test results (p<0.05) and there was a positive and significant difference between the parental stress scores pre-test and post-test results according to the answers given by the parents on the PSS as a result of the psychoeducation received by the parents. (p<0.05)