Acceptance and Commitment Training for Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience significant stress and caregiving burden and urgently require targeted psychological support and parenting guidance. Integrating acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) into the World Health Organization's caregiver skills training has demonstrated good feasibility, acceptability, and potential benefits in addressing these parents' unmet psychological and informational needs; however, its effectiveness remains unexplored.

Objective

To evaluate the effectiveness of an evidence-based ACT-based parenting program on parental stress and that of other health outcomes on parents and their children with ASD immediately and 6 months after intervention.

Design, setting, and participants

This randomize

SUBMITTER: Li SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12784228 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature