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Maternal experience of Lego Therapy in families with children with autism spectrum conditions : what is the impact on family relationships?
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Peckett, Helen, MacCallum, Fiona and Knibbs, Jacky (2015) Maternal experience of Lego Therapy in families with children with autism spectrum conditions : what is the impact on family relationships? Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice, 20 (7). pp. 879-887. doi:10.1177/1362361315621054
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361315621054
Abstract
This study aimed to explore mothers’ experience of implementing Lego Therapy (LeGoff, 2004) at home within the family. Following a Lego Therapy training session, mothers carried out hourly sessions with their child with an autism spectrum condition and the child’s sibling, once a week, for six weeks. Mothers were interviewed following the intervention, and the data was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, Flowers and Larkin, 2009). Themes emerged around improved family relationships, a positive impact on the child as an individual, and changed maternal, sibling and child perspectives. Challenging and facilitative aspects also emerged, as did some ambivalence about the impact of the intervention in the wider context. The findings are supportive of previous Lego Therapy studies and have implications for strengths-based service provision.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Psychology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Autism spectrum disorders -- Treatment, Autistic youth, Social skills in children, Parent and child, Parenting | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1362-3613 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 October 2015 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 20 | ||||||||
| Number: | 7 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 879-887 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1362361315621054 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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