Background Parental care for a child with a developmental disability is an enormous
responsibility, one that can far exceed that of typical parental care. While most parents adapt …

This paper reviews the main theories and results of the existing research to date about the
concept of the informal caregiver's burden. The explanation of the burden concept, the …

Objective. Most children enjoy healthy childhoods with little need for specialized health care
services. However, some children experience difficulties in early childhood and require …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

Title. Caring for a relative with dementia: family caregiver burden Aim. This paper is a report
of part of a study to investigate the burden experienced by families giving care to a relative …

Following a quantitative review examining the relative influence of positive and negative
social exchanges on emotional health, a second‐order factor model of negative social …

Illustrated with abundant clinical material, this book provides essential knowledge and skills
for effective mental health practice with older adults. It demonstrates how to evaluate and …

Social support is an important determinant of a carer's mental health. In recent decades,
despite many studies reporting on the relationship between social support and depressive …

Discusses the burden experienced by carers, persons that support patients with dementia.
Stress and physical symptoms suffered by carers; Impact of psychiatric symptoms and …

The purpose of this ethnographic study was to understand how immigrant women caregivers
accessed support from community resources and identify the barriers to this support. The …