Personal coping and social supports are presented as resources for parents of handicapped
children. These closely linked concepts are viewed as increasingly of interest to practitioners …

Human services workers have long recognized that parents of handicapped children
experience inordinate stresses. In recent years investigators have examined how such …

Much recent research on families bringing up a disabled child has explored their coping
strategies to deal with stress. The major findings are reviewed, and possible implications for …

Examines 25 recent studies of stress and coping in families of children who represent a
variety of disabling conditions as well as a range of ages. The purpose of this research …

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 …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of the research regarding family
responses to a handicapped child using family stress theory as a framework. It focuses upon …

Three questions were asked in this study;(1) Do parents of handicapped children
experience more stress than parents of nonhandicapped children?(2) What are the sources …

While there has been an upsurge of interest in the role of the family in caring for
handicapped children, much of that attention has been focused upon the mother-child …

This literature review focuses on the stresses families experience and the support factors
needed to help them cope with their handicapped children. Stress often appears to increase …

This article examines the effects of chronic stress generated by a developmentally
handicapped child on the various components of the family system. Specific reference is …