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Social integration of adults with intellectual disabilities in Georgia: lessons from Poland and the USA
- Author:
- MAKHARADZE Tamar
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 53(1), January 2010, pp.47-59.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article discusses ways of facilitating social integration for adults with intellectual disabilities in Georgia, by considering experiences from Poland and the USA. Poland has seen recent positive changes and the USA has well-developed policies in this field. What can Georgia learn from the experiences of these countries?
Parenting stress and coping styles in mothers and fathers of pre-school children with autism and Down syndrome
- Authors:
- DABROWSKA A., PISULA E.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54(3), March 2010, pp.266-280.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study examined the profile of stress for 162 parents of pre-school children with autism, Down syndrome and typically developing children, and to assess the association between parenting stress and coping style. Findings indicated a higher than average level of stress in parents of children with autism. Also, an interaction effect was revealed between the child’s diagnostic group and parent's gender for two scales of parenting stress: dependency and management; and limits of family opportunities. Mothers of children with autism scored higher than fathers in parental stress, whereas no such differences were found in the group of parents of children with Down syndrome and typically developing children. It was found that parents of children with autism differed from parents of typically developing children in social diversion coping. Emotional coping was the predictor for parental stress in the samples of parents of children with autism and Down syndrome, and task-oriented coping was the predictor of parental stress in the sample of parents of typically developing children. The results strongly supported earlier findings on parenting stress in parents of children with autism, and also shed light on the relationship between coping styles and parental stress.