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Social Network Attributes of Families With Positive Adaptation to the Birth of A Developmentally Disabled Child

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
April 1988

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Families who had adjusted well to the birth of a developmentally disabled child, and who were providing home care in the Province of Manitoba in Canada, were studied to explore their family attributes and social network characteristics. A survey was completed in thirty-six households involving the completion of a structured interview. This paper focuses on the consistent pattern that emerged across these strong families in their employment of social network resources. Successful adaptation to the birth of a developmentally disabled child seemed tied to skillful parental coordination of small, intense human networks in which extended family and friends provided different types of human support.

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Les familles qui se sont bien adaptèes à la naissance d'un enfant handicapè et qui on reču de l'aide à domicile au Monitoba, ont fait l'objet d'une ètude exploratoire sur leur situation familiale et les caractéristiques de leur réseau social. On a rencontré trente-six foyers qui ont acceptè de participer à une entrevue structurèe. L'article souligne l'émergence, dans ces familles fortes, d'un modèle cohèrent d'utilisation des ressources du rèseau social. Il semble que le succès de l'adaptation à la naissance d'un enfnat handicapè est relié à la capacitè qu'ont les parents de coordonner un rèseau restrient et intense, composè de membres de la famille et d'amis qui fournissent diffèrents types de support aux personnes.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 7Number 1April 1988
Pages: 5 - 16

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Version of record online: 29 April 2009

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Barry Trute
University of Manitoba
Christopher Hauch
University of Manitoba

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