Birth of a Sick or Handicapped Infant: Impact on the Family.

Trout, Michael David

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ERIC Number: EJ284396

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Publication Date: 1983

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Birth of a Sick or Handicapped Infant: Impact on the Family.

Trout, Michael David

Child Welfare, v62 n4 p337-48 Jul-Aug 1983

The experience of bearing and caring for a sick or handicapped infant is described from the point of view of parents, whose responses were gathered from a clinical study. Implications for the child's development and methods of family support are discussed. (Author/RH)

Descriptors: Comprehension, Disabilities, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Response, Family Problems, Grief, Hospitalized Children, Infants, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Siblings

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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