Proposal for intervention in family members of children with ASD from ACT improve family and school coexistence

The diagnosis of autism of a child reaches the family with difficulty and mixed emotions. A stage begins in which a great variety of resources are put in place to make the development of the person diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder resemble as much as possible a neurotypic evolution. Objectives: The first objective of this work is to make a bibliographic search of articles that deal with the Programs to deal with the difficulties that parents or families find when it comes to educating or living and teaching to live at home and in schools with their children or family, as well as intervention strategies to address the obstacles in family members of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The second objective is to make an intervention proposal with families of children diagnosed with ASD from the framework of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy based on the results found. Methodology: A systematic review of scientific articles has been carried out by consulting the Web of Science, Scopus and INDAGA databases. The materials have been restricted by publication date (2000/2017) and have been searched in Spanish and English. Abstracts / abstracts have been reviewed and the selected articles have been read in depth as well as all the articles with empirical and theoretical results of relevance for this review. Results: As a result of the systematic search, intervention has been proposed in families of children diagnosed with ASD from the framework of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Conclusions: It has been proven that there are many lines from which interventions for families of children diagnosed with ASD are proposed, but it is those based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) that have the greatest benefits in improving coexistence at home. and the subsequent integration and coexistence of the child in the classroom. Therefore, the intervention proposal proposed is based on this third generation therapy.