Psychological interventions targeting mental health and the mother-child relationship in autism: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Kavindri KulasingheKoa WhittinghamAmy E MitchellRoslyn Nancy BoydPublished in: Developmental medicine and child neurology (2022)
Results demonstrated that parenting interventions promoting responsiveness had the largest positive effect on the parent-child relationship and a moderate effect on overall parenting stress; however, the studies were heterogeneous, making it difficult to identify the intervention components that were responsible for the positive treatment effects. There was no significant treatment effect for studies targeting depression or general mental health, likely due to the lack of an interventional component directly targeting mental health.