The parents will answer questionnaires and Parent Development Interview (PDI) and the Five Minute Free Speech Sample (FMSS) as well as a number of other questionnaires.
Parents will be randomized between intervention group and control group. First session
* Introduction
* Setting expectations and goals
* General explanation of emotions and their development.
* How to recognize emotions? Why is it important to recognize them?
* Minding parents and child emotions. Second session
* Emotion Regulation (general explanation).
* Strategic for emotion regulation (Adults)
* Strategic for emotion regulation (children)
* Parental emotion regulation and the influence on the child emotion regulation
* Difficulties in ER among children with ASD Third session
* Three steps method: Feel, Think-Rethink, Regulate.
* Theory, explanation and implementation.
* Discussion: Role play of challenging highly affective parent-child interaction
Fourth session:
* Three steps method: Feel, Think-Rethink, Regulate.
* Theory, explanation and implementation.
* Discussion: Role play of challenging highly affective parent-child interaction The parents will do another PDI and will fill up the questionnaires
