PSY442Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Respite Care, Congenital Disorder
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Five factors that influence the ways in which families respond to an infant with a birth defect or disability: Families usually develop coping skills to deal with the demands of caring for a child with disability. Coping enhances sense of well being, and capacity to deal with these demands. Cognitive coping: enables thinking about child, sibling, or grandchild with a disability in ways that enhance their sense of well-being and increase capacity to respond positively to the child. Is defined by a set of purposes, cultural and societal beliefs and aspirations, parent and child roles, expectations, and family ses conditions. It examines how each family member fulfills roles consistent with expectations established by discussion, traditions, cultures, beliefs, or other means. And also examines the ecocultural and ses factors that impinge on children with disabilities and their families. Ecocultural: a term that combines ecological and cultural factors that influence family functioning, e. g. unemployment, family"s primary language, and country-of-origin traditions etc.
