Parents Workgroup About Emotion Regulation

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