Volume : VII, Issue : IX, September - 2017

Family Dynamics of the Disabled Children– An Analysis

Dr. M. V. Alli

Abstract :

 The disability either physical or mental can consume a disproportionate share of a family‘s resources of time and energy, families with disabled children perceive greater financial stress, frequent disruption of family routine and leisure, poor social interaction, and ill effects on their physical and mental health. The guilt, loss, anger, pain and fears that go along with raising such a child creates psychological and emotional problems aggravating stress and depression. Medications, therapy, counseling, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and schooling lead to money being swept away causing financial crisis. Families can find themselves isolated from their support circles when dealing with a child that has special needs or disabilities.   It is difficult, and it can be disabling in itself to a family who is already struggling to cope with the trauma of reå a child with disability. Psychosocial problems faced by the parents and other family members were studied in sixty families with a disabled child. Marital problems were reported to be present to a greater degree because of the lack of time for nurturing the marriage plus the frequent problem of parents disagreeing on the disabled child care practices. Divorce, separation and oken families are a common side effect in the families with a disabled child. Parents and professionals alike often lose sight of the need to help siblings understand the problem that is affecting their other or sister. Then there is the challenge of trying to reduce the jealousy that results when so much attention is focused on one child. Sibling issues are paid the least attention in most of the families. Appropriate management of these problems should be part of rehabilitation programmes in improving family dynamism. 

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Dr. M. V. Alli, Family Dynamics of the Disabled Children– An Analysis, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-9 | September-2017

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