"Our Story": Exposition of a Group Support Program for Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Krstic, Tatjana; Mihic, Ivana; Brankovic, Jelena
Titel	"Our Story": Exposition of a Group Support Program for Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities
Quelle	In: Child Care in Practice, 27 (2021) 4, S.406-421 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1357-5279
DOI	10.1080/13575279.2019.1664991
Schlagwörter	Parents; Child Rearing; Children; Developmental Disabilities; Stress Variables; Well Being; Emotional Response; Adjustment (to Environment); Coping; Parent Child Relationship; Psychoeducational Methods; Parent Education; Group Counseling; Foreign Countries; Serbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Eltern; Kindererziehung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Entwicklungsstörung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Emotionales Verhalten; Bewältigung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Parents education; Elternbildung; Elternschule; Gruppenberatung; Ausland; Serbien
Abstract	Learning about a child's condition and raising a child with a developmental disability can be challenging and emotionally overwhelming, but systematic support programs for parents are practically nonexistent. We find that providing support for parents should be an important public health priority which should be made available through educational, social and healthcare systems. This paper describes a six-week support program for parents of children with developmental disabilities. The program is based on the importance of resolution for providing quality care for the child and for achieving a state of wellbeing for the entire family. Resolution is defined as a process of acceptance and coming to terms with the child's health condition. It refers to the integration of parents' emotions and information regarding their child's disability within the parents' representational system of themselves, their child and their relationship with their child. The main characteristics and goals of this psychoeducational program are highlighted, along with the specific goals for each session. A group setting is applied with the idea that parents will benefit from hearing from people with similar experiences. The structure of all sessions is given in detail and all their components are explained: the introductory section, educational section, counseling section and the final section during which parents are given a handout in which the key content of a particular session is restated. Measures of subjective change and satisfaction with the program are promising, but we intend to further evaluate them in subsequent studies. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01