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Disabled children, parent-child interaction and attachment
- Author:
- HOWE David
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 11(2), May 2006, pp.95-106.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article examines the effect of various types of children's disability on parent–child interactions, including how disabilities affect parental sensitivity and communications. A brief outline of attachment theory and patterns of organization is followed by a review of the research evidence that has looked at children with disabilities and insecure attachments. A complex picture emerges in which it is not a child's disability per se that is associated with insecure attachments but rather an interaction between children with disabilities and the caregiver's state of mind with respect to attachment. Transactions between both child and caregiver vulnerability factors affect sensitivity, communications and security of attachment. Practice implications for prevention, advice and support are considered.
Proud child, safer child: a handbook for parents and carers of disabled children
- Author:
- CROSS Merry
- Publisher:
- Women's Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 206p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the abuse of disabled children and provides parents and carers with the skills they need to protect their children. Looks at: the particular vulnerabilities of some disabled children to all types of abuse; the social, economic and political reasons why some disabled children are not as well protected as they need to be; effective strategies to reduce risk of abuse; advice on building a child's self esteem; ways of communicating with children with a range of disabilities; clear guidance on how to recognise and assess the signs and indicators of abuse; information on the pros and cons of medical intervention; safer policies and procedures for organisations; and strategies for creating the best possible context for recovery from abuse.