Leisure, employment, community participation and quality of life in caregivers of autistic children: A scoping review

G Davy, KL Unwin, J Barbaro, C Dissanayake - Autism, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Parenting an autistic child can reduce the time parents have to participate in their own
interests, but the impact this has on caregiver quality of life is not well understood. The aim in …

Employed parents of children with disabilities and work family life balance: A literature review

TJ Brown, C Clark - Child & Youth Care Forum, 2017 - Springer
Background Work family balance (WFB) is an individual's perception of the fit between work
and family roles. Among employed parents of typically developing children WFB has been …

[HTML][HTML] Empirical evaluation of the association between daily living skills of adults with autism and parental caregiver burden

CN Marsack-Topolewski, PS Samuel, W Tarraf - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Despite the joy of parenting, the burden of daily caregiving for children with
autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can be overwhelming and constant. Parents can expect to …

[HTML][HTML] As experiências de famílias com filhos autistas: uma revisão integrativa da literatura

B Braga dos Anjos, N Araújo de Morais - Ciências Psicológicas, 2021 - scielo.edu.uy
Uma revisão integrativa da literatura científica nacional e internacional sobre autismo e
família analisou 91 artigos publicados entre 2013 e 2020. Prevaleceram artigos …

[HTML][HTML] Juggling between caregiving and self-actualization: Older parents' lifelong experience of caring for an adult child with developmental disabilities

H Avieli, T Band-Winterstein, A Zamir - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Recently, the number of adults with Developmental Disabilities (DD) who live with their
parents has increased. This study aims to explore how parents report retrospectively and …

Caregiving responsibilities for a child, spouse or parent: The impact of care recipient independence on employee well-being

HTJ Bainbridge, TR Broady - Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
An important non-work role involves the provision of informal, unpaid care to family and
friends who have a disability or who are aged. In this study we explored the effects of …

Leisure, community, workforce participation and quality of life in primary and secondary caregivers of autistic children

G Davy, J Barbaro, K Unwin, M Clark, R Jellett… - Autism …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Parents of Autistic children often modify their participation in leisure, social, and employment
activities to meet the caregiving needs of their child. However, few studies have examined …

Profiles of the parenting experience in families of autistic children

JL Greenlee, E Hickey, CR Stelter, T Huynh… - Autism, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Parents of autistic children experience more parenting stress and are at increased risk for
poor mental and physical health compared with parents of neurotypical children; however …

Effects of autism spectrum disorder on parental employment in the United States: evidence from the National Health Interview Survey

BP McCall, EM Starr - Community, Work & Family, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Using results of the US National Health Interview Survey (US-NHIS) for the years 1998–
2013 we investigated the impact of having a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on …

Blending traditional and nurturing fathering: Fathers of children with autism managing work and family

K Lien, B Lashewicz, J Mitchell, N Boettcher - Family Relations, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Against a backdrop of hegemonic masculinity, we contribute to understandings of
how having a child with autism impacts fathers' navigation of work and family …