Parental Involvement, Stress and Social Support : Families of Atypical and Typical Children

ISBN-13: 9783639700404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 124 str.

Ozkan Ozgun

Opis

This book examines the fathers and mothers involvement with their mentally delayed and normally developing children. ThFinal Overview e book also focuses on social support and parental stress experienced by parents of 4 to 7-year-old children. Human ecological theory and family systems theory have been utilized as the conceptual frameworks to identify the predictor and mediating variables related to parent involvement, stress, and social support. The present study included married mothers and fathers of young children with mental retardation and mothers and fathers of approximate age-matched typically developing children.

O autorze

Ozkan Ozgun, Ph.D., Studied Child & Family Studies at Syracuse University. Dr. Ozgun is a Couple and Family Therapist, Play Therapist, and Assistant Professor at Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey.