Exam 5: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Understanding Stress and Resilience in Family Systems

Families with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities report similar levels of stress as parents without children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

What are three reasons that families with members with intellectual or developmental disabilities experience greater stress?

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2013), more than ______ households with children aged birth to 17 years have at least one child with a special health care need.

A ______ refers to a child that does not meet age-specific milestones across two or more developmental domains.

Maria and Jen were excitedly waiting for the birth of their daughter. Mia was born with Down syndrome. Describe the family's experience through the lens of ambiguous loss.

Which statement correctly summarizes ambiguous loss?

Outline the contextual model of family stress.

Research suggests that fathers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities are likely to experience greater stress than mothers.

External contextual factors that influence the ability of families to cope, adapt, and build resilience may include culture and history, as well as external systems in which the family is embedded.

______ refer(s) to the experience of not knowing who is in or out of the family or relationship.

Discuss how the term disability has moved from a person-centered description to a social construct. How has this shift impacted the field? How is disability defined as a social construct?

Discuss how research in the area of families with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities is limited, and address what areas need further development.

Mia was born with Down syndrome. The social construct of disability focuses on ______.

______ percent of Americans with intellectual or developmental disabilities between the ages of 21 and 64 were employed in 2013.

Ms. Ali is a school social worker who works with the Hernandez family, including Juan, their youngest son. She has noticed that the family is isolated because of language barriers, and that Mrs. Hernandez is often teary when she left Juan at school. The parents agreed to meet with Ms. Ali and they created a plan for Juan's parents to begin a support group for parents of children with autism and for Juan to get into a playgroup twice per week. This is an example of the importance of ______.

Parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities frequently report positive personal effects.

One major flaw of research on children with intellectual and developmental disabilities to date is that it has been predominantly focused on ______.

What did the early research in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities focus on?

Which of the following is considered an internal context?

Which of the following statements about how health care systems impact the parents of children with Down syndrome is accurate?