Supportive SEAI therapy in parent-child interactions with atypical development in Albania

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of the present study is to explore and identify the effects of parent-child dyadic interaction and the efficacy of intervention, according to the SEAI model to children with atypical development (RM).

Method: Four dyads of parent-child interaction with atypical development of Mental Retardation participated in the present study. The mean age of the parents in the study is 42 years old (P = 40; P = 42; P3 = 43; P4 = 45 years old) while the average age of the children is 6 years old (F1 = 6; F2 = 7; F3 = 8; F4 = 8 years old).

Results: At the end of the SEAI treatment, the parents showed significant positive descriptions that they gave of their child (RCI: 0.3; MANOVA, α =, 56; η2 p =, 715). Both RCI and MANOVA values showed a significant difference in dyadic emotional disposal and synchronous pairing time (Synchronous dyadic disposal: RCI = 6.63; MANOVA, α =, 017; η2 p =, 902; Synchrony: RCI: 0, 23; MANOVA, α =, 075; η2 p =, 695).

Conclusions: Emotional dyadic relations that were submitted under the SEAI model showed higher effects on the construct of mother with MR children, whose emotional disposal degree increase significantly in the post-treatment and in the follow-up, treatment stages, thus, prospecting a good maintenance of parent—child with atypical development relations in their ordinary relationships.