A behavioural parent training programme for single mothers of physically handicapped children
- 1 May 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Child: Care, Health and Development
- Vol. 9 (3), 157-168
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.1983.tb00313.x
Abstract
The single mothers of 4 children with congenital physical disorders participated in a 9-wk parent training program. The program was developed to instruct them in the systematic utilization of behavioral techniques in order to enable them to teach their children self-help skills and to reduce behavior problems. The mothers successfully taught their children 7 self-help skills, with average self-help skill performance increasing from 18% correct during baseline to 99% correct during a 5-mo. follow-up period. The mothers provided one another with social support and practical suggestions related to psychosocial stresses facing single parents of handicapped children. The potential of behavioral parent training techniques in facilitating functional independence in physically handicapped children, as well as providing single parents with increased feelings of being able to systematically contribute to their children''s physical and psychosocial development is suggested.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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