Reduce Anxiety with Biofeedback : A study of Mothers having Children with Intellectual Disability

ISBN-13: 9783659756887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 72 str.

Anuradha Kushwah; T. C. Sivakumar; Richa Priyamvada

Opis

Parents have expectations to raise a normal child, and hold expectations for planning the future of the child. In contrast, parents whose child has some impairment, may experience dramatic changes in social life, expectations, plans, work life and their financial status. Parents experience uncertainty about their parenting abilities as well as to encounter more problems with personal freedom, mood, and sensitivity about their children adjustment into the community. Although many changes have occurred within the gender roles of families, mothers continue to have primary role in responsibility for their children and thus subject of more Anxiety, Stress and Challenges inherent in raising a child with a disability.The purpose of this research was to study the efficacy of biofeedback in reducing anxiety of mother having children with intellectual disability. The biofeedback intervention was given to reduce the level of anxiety by maintaining the Sympathetic & Parasympathetic Nervous System through heart rate & breathing.This book can be an eminent source of information for all researchers,for rehabilitation professionals which may helps to improve the quality of life of care givers.

O autorze

Anuradha Kushwah, acquired her M Phil in Rehabilitation Psychology from National Institute for the Mentally Handicap(NIMH),Secunderabad under the Osmania University,India & currently working as a Assistant Professor at People's University,Bhopal.Earlier she was working in Army Public School Bhopal & Shah Satnamji Girls School, Madhya Pradesh,India