Family consequences of children's disabilities
By: Dennis Hogan
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780871544575; 9781610447737
Subjects: Services for; Parents of children with disabilities; Children with disabilities
Description: About the author -- Introduction: tiny publics as social order -- The power of groups -- The dynamics of idioculture -- Constraints and their macrofoundations -- Norms and action -- The performance of ideology -- Wispy communities -- Tiny publics in civil society -- The extension of the local -- Action and its publics -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Families' experiences with children's disabilities; title: Methods to study family consequences of children's disabilities; title: Supporting, growing, and dissolving the family; title: Family life, social support, and religious activities; title: Parents, adolescent children with disabilities, and the transition to adulthood; title: The lives of brothers and sisters; title: Parents' struggles for disability services; title: Conclusions.