The study explored the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between spirituality and subjective well-being of 107 Ghanaian biological parents raising children with special needs. Results ...from mediational analyses revealed that spirituality indirectly influenced life satisfaction, positive affect and negative affect through resilience. Specifically, greater levels of spirituality predicted greater resilience, which successively led to greater life satisfaction, greater positive affect and reduced negative affect. These findings emphasize the necessity of targeting parents’ well-being through resilience to help them deal with the burden of providing care for their children with special needs.
This research presents an in-depth observation of parental resolution regarding a child's diagnosis with special needs to help counsellors understand the complexities of parental coping. Sixty-two ...parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder/Intellectual Developmental Delay participated in a Reaction to the Diagnosis Interview and a semi-structured interview. Categorical analysis revealed that 59.7% of the parents had reached resolution, with approximately 40% emotional orientation, 40% cognitive orientation, and 20% proactive orientation. Content analysis revealed three themes: emotions-feelings of guilt, shame, and emotional breakdown; thoughts-fear of stigma and concern for the child's future; actions-concealment, seeking support, and attempts to reject the results of the diagnosis. Whereas most parents were diagnosed as having reached resolution, the content analysis still found complex subject matter suggesting lack of resolution. Research findings show that counsellors should identify the intricate emotional dynamics of parents coping while being cautious of premature coping categorization.
It is well known that parents play an important role in the family, particularly the mental health literacy of parents is essential for the growth and development of children. As the parents of ...children with special needs, they are facing more difficulties and psychological pressure, resulted in more mental health problems.
The current study examined the effect of social support on mental health literacy, and its underlying mechanisms regarding the mediating role of coping styles and moderating role of social comparison.
Using a cross-sectional design, 165 parents of children with special needs (22-67 years old, M=37.72, SD=8.78) participated in the study. The general information questionnaire, Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS), Social Support Rating Scale, Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire, and Social Comparison Orientation Scale were used.
We found that objective support positively predicted the mental health literacy, positive coping style played a mediating role between objective support and mental health literacy. In addition, the relationship between objective support and positive coping styles was moderated by social comparisons; for lower levels of opinion social comparison, the effect of objective support on positive coping styles was significantly stronger.
We revealed the underlying mechanisms between social support and mental health literacy. The present study has profound implications for mental health literacy services for parents who have children with special needs.
While parenting a child with special needs is burdensome, some parents do overcome through protective resources. Social support has been widely linked to this unique ability to overcome the ...challenges of raising a child with special needs. In spite of this, there is still paucity of research about the influence of the sources of perceived social support on this ability, known as resilience.
This study examined three sources of perceived social support—family, friends and significant other—on the resilience of Ghanaian parents raising children with special needs while adjusting for covariates (parental gender, marital status and educational level).
One hundred and seven (107) biological parents were recruited from special schools and parents support groups in Accra, Ghana. They completed paper-and-pencil or online questionnaires on resilience and perceived social support.
Output from hierarchical multiple regression after adjusting for covariates showed that only support from significant others predicted resilience. Additionally, being married was positively and holding a higher education was inversely associated with resilience.
These findings indicate the importance of support from significant others in the resiliency of parents but underscore the need to fully integrate and emphasize support from the other sources in resilience enhancing interventions.
Psychology; Ghana; Parents of children with special needs; Perceived social support; Resilience; Significant others; Friends; Family
This study aims to improve subjective well-being in parents with children with special needs (ABK) through emotional regulation training. The hypothesis is that emotional regulation training can ...improve subjective well-being in parents with ABK. The research design used pre-test post-test one group design. The research subjects were parents whose children attended PAUD / SPS activities in RW se Kecamatan Umbulharjo, which amounted to 12 people. The data collection instrument used SWB scale, observation sheet, and interview guide. Data analysis used descriptive statistic analysis to compare pretest, posttest, and follow-up score. The results show that emotional regulation training can improve subjective well-being in parents with Children with Special Needs (ABK). With reliability test results obtained 35 valid results and 35 aitem autumn. Its alpha reliability coefficient index is 0.923. This research can be used as a reference for the implementing unit of guidance and counseling services in universities, lecturers, and counselors at universities to improve emotional regulation to improve subjective well-being in parents with children with special needs.
•Facilitated peer support groups exist for caregivers of children with special needs.•Caregivers may have positive and/or negative experiences of participating in groups.•Caregivers have limited time ...to provide essential feedback to program planners.•Brief, online surveys provide a feasible mechanism for ongoing monitoring and evaluation.•Online surveys can provide feedback on caregivers’ expectations and experiences.
There have been few systematic evaluations of experiences of participating in peer support groups for parents and other caregivers of children with special needs. In Australia, facilitated groups are available to caregivers in community settings, through a nationally funded program, MyTime. Mechanisms for ongoing monitoring and evaluation have not yet been instituted.
To establish whether brief, online surveys can be used for monitoring and evaluating peer support groups for caregivers of children with special needs.
Two brief, online surveys, with both fixed-choice and open-ended questions, were developed. All caregivers who attended any MyTime group during a 1-month period were invited to participate.
Of 89 caregivers who expressed interest in participating, 54 and 31 respondents completed respectively. Respondents represented a variety of backgrounds and circumstances. Responses revealed both positive and negative aspects of group participation. Linked data on expectations and experiences provided important feedback for the program.
Brief, online surveys are a suitable mechanism for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of peer support group programs for caregivers.
Razmatraju se medicinski i socijalni model pristupa teškoćama u razvoju, te neki modeli rada s roditeljima djece s teškoćama. Poseban naglasak stavljen je na nacionalna iskustva vezana uz pružanje ...organizirane pomoći roditeljima djece s poteškoćama baziranim na principima Integrativne Gestalt terapije (Igrić i sur. 1994; Bezuk i sur.; 1995; Igrići sur., 1999; Kraljević, 2007). Registrirani su neki od indikatora nastalih promjena (samopoštovanje i roditeljska kompetentnost) nakon jednogodišnje pomoći. Podaci pokazuju pozitivne promjene na planu roditeljskog samopoštovanja i roditeljske kompetentnosti nakon organiziranog pružanja podrške.
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