Impacto do autismo infantil sobre a família: revisão integrativa.

Abstract

The family, finding a diagnosis of infantile autism in their midst is experiencing difficulties due to lack of preparation and fear of parents, can affect the development of children. The impact generated by the discovery of autism may lead to the emergence of overload and emotional stressors. This study seeks to integrative way evaluate the bibliographic production consists of research reports indexed in databases (LILACS and SciELO), produced from 2004 to 2014, on the topic of psychosocial impact on families of autistic children; identify what causes such an impact and its implications for family functioning; investigate convergent themes in published articles that empower the organization and analysis of data and identify the main difficulties and the use of coping strategies to deal with the condition have a son/ brother who demand special care. The research is an integrative literature review. After using inclusion and exclusion criteria, 18 articles evaluated with methodological rigor, in order to ascertain whether the methods and results of the research are sufficiently valid to be considered were selected. In categorization analysis, we used thematic analysis proposed by Bardin. According to the results, there was a difficulty of parents to distribute tasks among themselves and differentiate the relations of father-mother and husband-wife. The communication presents itself as one of the major complications due to the difference in the development of autism. Stress is still the biggest problem caused by the impact of the diagnosis of autism and the doubts and uncertainties aroused the family. The most frequently used coping strategies are psychodynamic therapies and group activities in order to facilitate the interaction between the child and their family. It is considered that it is of great importance increased interest and the number of research about the topic.