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What does it cost?
- Authors:
- BECKER Saul, DEARDEN Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.6.00, 2000, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A new study set out to explore how young people's experience of caring for ill or disabled family members affected their lives in the future. The authors explain their findings.
On the road to autonomy: promoting self-competence in children and youth with disabilities
- Editors:
- POWERS Laurie E., SINGER George H.S., SOWERS Jo-Ann
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 428p.,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Includes chapters on: self-competence and disability; mastering the developmental challenges; coping strategies in children and young people; a developmental perspective on stress appraisal; self-determination for young people with serious cognitive disabilities; self-esteem and learning difficulties; the interrelationship of education and self-esteem; how chronically children cope with negative social interaction; the role of health professionals in supporting a child's self-competence; teaching self-determination; promoting self-esteem among young children with disabilities; and helping young children with behaviour problems develop self-determination through behavioural skill building.