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Empowerment of parents of children with disabilities: the effect of community and personal variables
- Authors:
- ITZHAKY Haya, SCHWARTZ Chaya
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Social Work, 5(1), 2000, pp.21-36.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article explores empowerment among parents of children with disabilities. Specifically, it deals with how changes in parents' patterns of involvement and participation lead to empowerment. Parents of children with disabilities in Israel who are involved in voluntary organisations for the disabled were surveyed in relation to three components of empowerment: family; services; and community. Four community variables-patterns of activity in organisation, representation of the disabled and their families, participation in decision-making, and sense of belonging to the community-and two personal variables-self-esteem and mastery-were each found to affect at least one of the components of empowerment. The article includes some recommendations for social workers with regard to the empowerment of parents of disabled children.
Working with families whose children have disabilities: service provision by Jewish and Arab Israeli social workers
- Authors:
- SCHARTZ Chaya, DUVDEVANY Ilana, AZAIZA Faisal
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 45(3), July 2002, pp.353-373.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article presents a pilot study that examined the characteristics and functioning of Israeli social workers who work with families whose children have disabilities. The survey includes Jewish and Arab populations in different settings, governmental services, municipal services and voluntary ones. The article presents the characteristics of the workers, the patterns of service provision and a comparison between Jewish and Arab social workers.