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Coping with the care of a severely disabled child
- Author:
- BERESFORD Bryony
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 4(1), January 1996, pp.30-40.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The unrelenting, and often overwhelming, stresses experienced by parents caring for a disabled child have been well charted, as have their impact on personal and family well-being. This paper reports on a study which took such research a step further by focusing on the ways parents cope with the stresses and strains of care. Reports on the way in which the negative aspects of caring for a disabled child were balanced by two positive factors: the parent-child relationship and the ways parents coped with the problems they encountered and the emotional distress they felt. Discusses parents different coping strategies and the role of services in supporting parents in the ways they chose to cope.
Positively parents: caring for a severely disabled child
- Author:
- BERESFORD Bryony
- Publisher:
- HMSO/University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 132p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports a qualitative longitudinal study of parents caring for a severely disabled child. Examines the personal and social resources upon which parents draw, and the strategies they use to cope with the associated daily problems and stresses. Describes how unexpected events and changes in circumstances affect their ability to cope. Also considers practice and policy implications arising from the research.