Parenting a child with a developmental disability can be a profoundly stressful experience.
Although caregiving is an expected part of becoming a parent, those raising children with …

Aim To explore the impact of parent‐to‐parent support when a child is born with a disability.
Design The research approach was qualitative. Data were collected retrospectively and …

During early childhood, children require major support that is tailored toward their specific
needs. For children with disabilities, families play a crucial part in providing the needed …

Social work interventions with persons with developmental disabilities and their families
often take a pathological approach by labeling children and parents. Although families with …

To date, much of the research linking the stress of caring for children with developmental
disabilities (eg Autism & Down syndrome) with parental health outcomes have tended to …

Using family systems theory as a theoretical framework, we investigated direct and indirect
associations between type of disability, caregiver burden, and sibling relationships with …

Parents of children diagnosed with disabilities often experience elevated levels of stress
compared to those parenting children without disabilities (Baker‐Ericzén, Brookman …

Serving children with special health care needs (SHCN) or developmental disabilities (DD)
and their families is an important public health issue (Healthy People, 2020). The …

This article examines factors that are associated with parenting success for caregivers of
children with disabilities using Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems framework. Although …

Objective: This study examined the strength of the relationship between parents' perceptions
of family-centered, professionally provided caregiving and their emotional well-being …