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

A social construct refers to ______

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities whose primary educational experience included segregated special education classrooms are ______ for the social demands of a work setting.

Research suggests that grandparents may experience similar emotional reactions as parents to the news of a grandchild's diagnosis with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Research suggests significant positive employment outcomes for individuals with intellectual disabilities who participate in postsecondary education programs.

Which previously established model of family stress is the contextual model of family stress based on?

The health system is considered a component of the internal context of a family with a child with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

What distinguishes the internal context from the external context?

According to Boss (1999, 2002), ambiguous loss in the case of a family with a member who has intellectual and developmental disabilities explains the concept that the family experiences ______.

Siblings of a child with intellectual disabilities report overwhelmingly negative experiences when the child has autism.

Key predictors of the health, stability, and well-being of a person with intellectual and developmental disabilities and his or her family are ______.

Compared to fathers of disabled children, mothers ______,

When exploring the external context for resources, one would focus on ______.

In a 2013 study, many parents of children with Down syndrome reported ______ with health care personnel.

Keisha was born with several physical abnormalities. Her disability diagnosis represents a long-term, probably permanent change in her family's trajectory. It includes a number of unknown elements and will require that the family to adapt to the incongruence between the psychological (expected) and physical (present) family. This is an example of ______.

Social support systems for families with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities are______.

When exploring research on siblings of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, which of the following statements is true?

Which model suggests that appraisals of stressors are important mechanisms through which stress is translated and experienced by parents?

When dealing with educational systems, parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities should avoid interfering with the IEP developed by the teacher.

What is the relationship between ambiguous loss and boundary ambiguity?

The ambiguity that stems from an intellectual or developmental disability diagnosis includes the uncertainty of the level of impairment and the family's grief at the loss of the more typical child and life path they were anticipating.