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Psychological Support for Mental Health of Mothers to Childhood the Children with Disability

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  • K Muniisvaran
  • Ms. J Vijayalakshmi
  • Franklin Thambi Jose S

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Child rearing (CR) or parenting can be referred as, bringing-up of children by mothers or parent substitutes. It is bounded with the practices in the society related to cultural patterns and beliefs. It is probably the most challenging responsibility for a mother who has a child with disability. Successful CR is important for any child’s complete growth and realization of self-assurance. Bringing up a child with disability causes lots of pain and brings extra challenges and demands to the mothers in their day to day life. Total 40 mothers and caregivers are involved for this study. The study focuses on, to assess the mental health and rearing practice of mothers on their children with disability and the psychological support service. Most of the mothers fall in the category of fair in mental health and also fair in rearing their disability children. Mothers who are selected for this study accept their life and its challenges around their children with disability and coping measures by the psychological support.

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  • K Muniisvaran & Ms. J Vijayalakshmi & Franklin Thambi Jose S, 2018. "Psychological Support for Mental Health of Mothers to Childhood the Children with Disability," International Journal of Asian Social Science, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 8(12), pages 1186-1191.
    • Handle: RePEc:asi:ijoass:v:8:y:2018:i:12:p:1186-1191:id:3081
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