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- Title
Maternal experience of Lego Therapy in families with children with autism spectrum conditions: What is the impact on family relationships?
- Authors
Peckett, Helen; MacCallum, Fiona; Knibbs, Jacky
- Abstract
This study aimed to explore mothers’ experience of implementing Lego Therapy 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 6 weeks. Mothers were interviewed following the intervention, and the data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. 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.
- Subjects
LEGO toys; AUTISTIC children; PARENTS of autistic children; CHILDREN; TRAINING; THERAPEUTICS; FAMILIES; AUTISM; SIBLINGS; INTERVIEWING; LONGITUDINAL method; PHENOMENOLOGY; MOTHERS; PLAY therapy; SOCIAL skills; THEMATIC analysis
- Publication
Autism: The International Journal of Research & Practice, 2016, Vol 20, Issue 7, p879
- ISSN
1362-3613
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1362361315621054