Painting the vortex: The existential structure of the experience of parenting a child with autism |
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Authors: | Andrew Cashin |
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Institution: | Copacabana, Australia |
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Abstract: | The experience of parenting a child with autism is one of change to the parent's self. The associated triad of impairment in autism of impaired communication, social skills and a repetitive way of being permeates into the self of the parent through the medium of the social parent child relationship. This is a progressive process likened to the parent being pulled into a vortex. The existential mechanisms through which this may plausibly occur are considered. |
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Keywords: | Autism Dasein parenting phenomenology |
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