23 research outputs found
Heart Coherence: A New Tool in the Management of Stress on Professionals and Family Caregivers of Patients with Dementia
The Effects of Nurses’ Practicing of the HeartTouch Technique on Perceived Stress, Spiritual Well-Being, and Hardiness
The impact of an emotional self-management skills course on psychosocial functioning and autonomic recovery to stress in middle school children
A Comparative Analysis: A Review of a Qualitative Approach and a Quantitative Approach to Examining Stress and Coping for Targets Enduring Workplace Bullying
Disability, Stigma and Otherness: Perspectives of Parents and Teachers
This qualitative study explored the perspectives of parents and teachers in the US with regard to the meaning and implications of disability in the context of schoolling, and of raising a child with a disability. The findings revealed broad conceptual differences in the perspectives of these two groups. Teachers’ beliefs were generally consistent with medical model perspectives on disability as biologically defined. Parents’ interpretations, more aligned with a sociocultural paradigm, were situated in the cultural meanings ascribed to disability and linked with issues of stigma, marginalisation and access. The findings also revealed the existence of master narratives on families of children with disabilities, entrenched in assumptions of pathological functioning and negative outcomes among these families. Implications for professional–family partnerships in the education of students with disabilities are discussed