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Title:

Supporting families of children with disabilities – the prospect of change

Subject and Keywords:

supporting   disability   family   Down syndrome

Description:

The trajectories of the bonds of the contemporary family

Abstract:

The paper includes the summary of changes that take place in the field of social support given to families of children with disabilities in Poland and abroad. In the empirical part, using in-depth interviews, this study investigated the personal experiences of 11 mothers of children with Down syndrome within the social support system. Interview transcripts were qualitatively analysed with the usage of interpretative phenomenological analysis. Several themes emerged: support concentrated on a child with a disability as well as instrumental, informative, emotional support of parents (both formal and informal). Parents described various sources of the received support but also mentioned their shortcomings. The importance of adapting the modern model of supporting families of children with disabilities is highlighted and the implications of the findings are discussed.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych Karkonoskiej Państwowej Szkoły Wyższej   Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2015

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

ISSN 2082-9019   e-ISSN 2300-5866

DOI:

10.23734/wwr20151.377.396

Source:

Pdg P 343

Language:

pol

Relation:

Wychowanie w Rodzinie, T. 11 (2015), s. 377-396

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Rights holder:

Copyright by Agnieszka Żyta   Copyright by Katarzyna Ćwirynkało

Location of original object:

Biblioteka Instytutu Pedagogiki UWr

Autor opisu:

h.w.