The Impact of a Mentoring Program on Alleviating the Level of Violent Behaviors of Children with Autism Disorder

The study aims at demonstrating the effectiveness of a mentoring program on alleviating the level of violent behavior of children with level 1 autism disorder. The researcher applied quasi-experimental approach in this study. The study was implemented on 30 (males and females)children with autism disorder at HoroufCenter for Training and Consultation in Amman. The participants were randomly split into two groups: the experimental group and the control group. To accomplish the objectives of the study, the researcher developed a training program on relaxation and applied Nassar Scale (2017) to measure and observe the violent behavior of the participants. In conclusion, the study revealed how the measurements of the violent behavior highlighted indicative statistical differences in the medians of the performances of the experimental and control groups. These differences are affected by the mentoring program and aligned with the experimental group. Both the pre-measurement and post-measurement applied on the experimental group underscored differences in the violent behavior of its members toward the self, the others, the assets and in the total level of the violent behavior as indicated by the post measurement. As well, the differences in the medians of the performances of the experimental and control groups, according to the scale of violent behavior measurement, were attributed to the participant’s sex, which is aligned with the males of the experimental group. In the light of these outcomes, the study proposes some recommendations and suggestions to alleviate the level of violent behavior of children of autistic disorder