Families of the Handicapped Child: Research and Practice

Longo, Dianne C.; Bond, Linda

doi:10.2307/584590

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“…Many studies describe problems or worries that parents of handicapped children face (Longo and Bond, 1984). In Jordan, especially in Tafila and Karak hardly few studies are done in this area.…”

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Mothers’ Stress in Families of Children with Mental Handicap

Al-Qaisy¹

2012

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This study aims to determine the intensity of stress experienced by the mothers of children with mental handicap, and identifies the stress of mothers with some variables as: age and sex of children and age of mothers, among a sample of 235 Mothers of children with mental handicap who were selected in a randomized sample. The results indicate that mothers total stress score is at a severe level. Additionally, the results indicate that mothers' stress does not differ with sex and age of the mental handicapped children. It also indicates that there is no difference between mothers' stress with relation to the age of mothers.

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Mothers’ Stress in Families of Children with Mental Handicap

Al-Qaisy¹

2012

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“…While studies from the 1970's reported high divorce rates among parents of chronically ill children (Finley et al, 1979;Gath, 1977;Lansky et al, 1978;Martin, 1978;Tew et al, 1974), most of the recent research found no significant difference in the divorce rate of couples with seriously ill children compared to couples in the general population (Hauenstein, 1990;Longo and Bond, 1984;McCubbin, 1989;Sabbeth and Leventhal, 1984;Yura, 1987). Much of this past work, however, does not control for potential confounders such as the presence and number of other children, or the timing of a child's birth within the life course of the marriage (Finley et al, 1979;Gath, 1977;Hauenstein, 1990;Lansky et al, 1978;Longo and Bond, 1984;Martin, 1978;McCubbin, 1989;Palfrey et al, 1989;Sabbeth and Leventhal, 1984;Silben et al, 1982;Tew et al, 1974;Yura, 1987). Past work has also generally relied on small, cross-sectional, convenience samples.…”

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Children's health and their mothers’ risk of divorce or separation

Joesch

Smith

1997

Biodemography and Social Biology

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“…additional stress (Longo and Bond, 1984), inability to cope well is of concern because of the potential negative impact on the caregiving environment (Crnic et al, 1983). A number of child, parent and resource factors have been identified as important for successful family adaptation, although specific findings vary widely and often differ little from those for comparison groups (e.g.…”

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Father and mother contributions to family functioning when the child has a mental delay

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Less is known about the father's than the mother's role in family adaptation to children with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to examine relationships of both father and mother use of coping strategies and perceptions of the child with measws of family functioning style. Subjects were 26 families of Wmonthold children with a mental delay and a comparison group of 26 families of same-aged children with no delay. Functioning style for study families showed a balance of cohesion and adaptability; comparison families were more chaotically flexible on the adaptability scale. Mothers and fathers agreed on family functioning style. Study parents made the greatest use of external coping strategies, while in both p u p s mothers used more external and fathers more internal coping strategies. Relationships between coping and family functioning varied by parent and by group. Results suggest the need for further exploration of the separate needs of fathers and mothers in maintaining balanced family functioning.

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Families of the Handicapped Child: Research and Practice

Cited by 53 publications

References 37 publications

Mothers’ Stress in Families of Children with Mental Handicap

Mothers’ Stress in Families of Children with Mental Handicap

Children's health and their mothers’ risk of divorce or separation

Father and mother contributions to family functioning when the child has a mental delay

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