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Stress and coping in families with ill or disabled children


Stress and coping in families with ill or disabled children

Argues that chronic illness or disability of a child is a specific stressor affecting the entire family. To analyze the factors influencing the family's ...

Stress and coping in families with ill or disabled children - PubMed

Chronic illness or disability of a child is a specific stressor affecting the entire family. To analyze the factors influencing the family's stress response ...

Stress and Coping in Families of Learning Disabled Children

If parenthood in itself is a crisis, as. LeMasters (1965) has suggested, one would suspect that the stress of having a handicapped or ill child is overwhelming.

Stress and coping in families of children with disabilities

... child variables (e.g., degree of disability, age, gender, and temperament); and (4) external variables (e.g., stigmatizing social attitudes, social network ...

Stress and coping among parents of handicapped children - PubMed

Coping styles predicted psychological distress and fathers' family adjustment. Social network predicted family adjustment and fathers' psychological distress.

Stress and Coping in Families of Learning Disabled Children

Having a handicapped child is stressful to a family, but the family whose child has a hidden handicap experiences special problems. The literature on families ...

Stress and coping strategies in parents of children with special needs

Conclusion: Parents were found to be using more positive and practical strategies to cope with stress induced by taking care of children with ...

Coping with stress in parents of children with developmental ...

In stressful situations connected with rearing a child, parents of children with developmental disabilities do not use as dominant strategies connected with ...

Coping With Stress When Your Child Has a Chronic Illness or ...

As tough as parenting can be, it becomes even more difficult when our children are diagnosed with a chronic illness or disability. We go through ...

Stress coping ability of parents of mentally challenged children

Normative survey method was used. The results showed that moderate levels of stress coping ability of parents of mentally challenged children.

Evaluation of Coping Strategies with Stress of Parents Who Have ...

It has been shown that milieu of the children with mental disability experience stress and has difficulties to perform their roles both in family life and their ...

A Model of Stress in Families of Children with Developmental ...

It first describes the theoretical underpinnings in the literature on stress and coping in individuals and on family stress. The proposed model includes ...

Stress and Coping in Families with Ill or Disabled Children: | CoLab

Stress and Coping in Families with Ill or Disabled Children: // Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics. 1989. Vol. 9. No. 2. pp. 11-32.

Stress and Ameliorating Factors among Families with a Seriously Ill ...

PDF | Research suggests families with a chronically ill or disabled child are subject to higher levels of stress than families with ...

Stress and Resilience Among Families Caring for Children with ...

Parents of children with intellectual disability (ID) tend to report higher-than-average rates of stress, anxiety and depression.

Page 4: Stressors of Daily Living - IRIS Center

In addition to coping with emotional issues and additional roles, the families of children with disabilities may experience significant stressors related to ...

Raising a Child with a Disability: Coping Mechanisms and Support ...

The financial hardships of families of children with disabilities can result in emotional distress for parents and the entire family unit. Family Stress ...

Parental Reactions To Having A Chronically Ill Child

Focusing on the child as a person and not the illness and being as positive as possible helps the parent, the child with the disability, and the family cope. It ...

Parental stress, coping strategies and social support in families of ...

Support from friends seems to reduce the stress related to parent–child dysfunctional interaction, while support from others seems to increase ...

Coping of parents with physically and/or intellectually disabled ...

By recognizing the coping strategies used by the family, professionals and service providers can find the right ways to support their adaptation and can be ...