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• Title: Evaluating Stress Levels of Parents of Children with Disabilities.
• Author : Exceptional Children
• Release Date : January 01, 2004
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 214 KB

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Accumulating evidence suggests that parents of children with developmental disabilities often experience deleteriously high levels of stress (Bradley, Rock, Whiteside, Caldwell, & Brisby, 1991; Dumas, Wolf, Fisman, & Culligan, 1991; Hendriks, DeMoor, Oud, & Savelberg, 2000; McKinney & Peterson, 1987; Rodrigue, Morgan, & Geffken, 1990; Smith, Oliver, & Innocenti, 2001). Mothers of children with developmental disabilities have been reported to show significantly higher stress levels and report more negative child characteristics than mothers of children without disabilities (McKinney & Peterson), and mothers of children with autism have reported significantly higher stress levels and lower levels of parenting competency than mothers of children without disabilities (Rodrigue et al.). Parents of children with autism and behavior disorders have been similarly shown to report higher stress levels than parents of children with Down syndrome and parents of children without disabilities, and also report higher frequencies of depression and struggles with challenging behaviors. This body of literature emphasizes the toll that raising a child with a disability may have on a parent. It is important that professionals providing services to children with developmental disabilities carefully evaluate the levels of stress experienced by a child's parents, as well as the strategies for coping with the stress that a parent might exhibit. It is known that the family plays an important role in the child's treatment, and that parent training and involvement in services often improves the effectiveness of a particular intervention or treatment (Mahoney, Boyce, Fewell, Spiker, & Wheeden, 1998). For example, mothers of children receiving early intervention services showed significantly more interaction with their child than did mothers of children not receiving services. It seems reasonable to expect that the levels of stress a parent experiences may affect the frequency and quality of interactions with their child. Respite services in particular have been shown to reduce parental stress. Rimmerman (1989) discovered that mothers who received at least 6 hours of respite care per week for 6 months reported significantly lower stress levels than mothers who did not receive such services. Moreover, Mullins, Aniol, Boyd, Page, and Chancy (2002) found that parents of children who were admitted for an approximately weeklong stay in a respite care facility and parents of children who were admitted for month-long inpatient treatment reported similar levels of stress reduction. These results suggest that the provision of short-term respite care may have a remarkable impact on a parent's well-being, which in turn may assist a child's progress and development.

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