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- Resilience and emotional regulation in parents of children with special needs (SN)Publication . Veiga-Branco, Augusta; Prada, Ana Raquel Russo; Antão, Celeste; Colomeischi, Adina; Ribeiro, Luís FrölénParents of children with Special Needs (SN) experience higher levels of emotional distress (Lecavalier, et al, 2006), depression (Benson, 2006), anxiety (Pakenham, et al, 2004) and social isolation. Informal caregiving of a child with SN is often regarded as a moral duty and most often research has focused primarily on the deficits and risk factors among these families. Based on the current assumptions of Positive Psychology (Seligman, 2000), the current research focus on Family Resilience and Emotional Competence (Bisquerra, 2000; Veiga-Branco 2004, 2005, 2007), assuming the potentially healthy and positive aspects of families in opposition to traditional psychology and the need to promote emotional skills within families. This study aims to recognize the association between family resilience and emotional regulation in parents with children with SN. Quantitative and cross-sectional study, gathered by face to face survey, that will be conducted between the 15th of January and the 15 th of March of 2017 on a representative sample both parents of a child with SN from the northern and interior region of Portugal. Family resilience, dyadic coping and emotional competence of the couple were measured, respectively, by Portuguese versions of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (Martins, et al., 2013), the Dyadic Coping Inventory (Vedes et al., 2013) and the Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire (Lima Santos & Faria, 2005). The relevance of the data obtained with families parenting children with special needs will be discussed considering the need of promoting resilience within these families.
- Social inclusion and wellbeing of families of children with special needs transnational study reportPublication . Colomeischi, Adina; Fillella Gui, Gemma; Veiga-Branco, Augusta; Alimović, Sonja; Baranauskiene, Ingrida; Gol-Guven, MineBUILDING BRIDGES: PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION AND WELLBEING FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS – PSI-WELL The project entitled Building Bridges: Promoting Social Inclusion and Wellbeing for Families of Children with Special Needs (PSI_WELL) proposes an innovative approach aimed to facilitate social inclusion and wellbeing for families confronting with disabled children through adult education for parents. The project is addressing to the specific needs of families parenting children with special needs (SN) and it is designed to help parents to improve their coping strategies and to enhance their parenting skills in order to foster their social inclusion and wellbeing. The first aim of our project is to assess the wellbeing, stress related factors and couple relationship of parents of children with special needs. The second aim is to enhance personal resources (such as individual coping, emotion regulation), family resources (such as dyadic coping) and social support for parents of a child with special needs through development, implementing and validating a psycho‐educational and social intervention program. The general aim of the project is promoting social inclusion, equity and wellbeing for risk families in Europe through an intervention program for parents of children with special needs. This will be reached through objectives: (1) Diagnose the level of social inclusion, stress and wellbeing of 1500 families parenting children with special needs through a cross‐sectional and cross‐national research; (2) Developing a psychoeducational & social intervention program for fostering wellbeing for families of children with SN; (3) Validating the psychoeducational &social intervention program for risk families through the implementation with 360 parents from European countries of partnership; (4) Raising the awareness of the communities regarding the specific needs for social inclusion of risk families and disadvantaged parents of children with special needs through conducting an information campaign; (5) Developing a psychoeducational kit comprising two working tools for trainers specialized in working with disadvantaged parents by the end of the project; (6) Improving parenting skills and parent‐child relationships through developing na integrative handbook for parents by the end of the project. The target group comprises 360 parents from six European countries who will be involved in training activities and social network in order to enhance their personal and parental skills for a better social inclusion. The activities describe specific interventions such as a crossnational research on social inclusion, stress and wellbeing of families of children with SN to diagnose the level of stress and wellbeing of parents and the implications for adult education; designing and validating of a Psycho‐Educational & Social Intervention (PESI) Program for enhancing social inclusion and wellbeing of families of children with special needs; developing specific and comprehensive tools to sustain the intervention program (such as: a handbook for parents of children with special needs; a psycho‐educational kit for social‐emotional learning training for parents of children with SN, comprising the trainer’s manual and the trainee’s workbook), developing and implementing a training course for trainers; delivering the training program for parents; creating a network of support groups for parents of children with special needs in order to facilitate knowledge and experiences sharing, fostering social inclusion as well; dissemination of project’s activities and results; sharing the project’s deliverables through website, workshops, symposium, conferences. The expected impact on target groups is twofold: on the one hand is expected a personal development process and on the other hand is expected acquiring specific parenting skills (the results will consist in 360 parents of children with SN more resilient and enabled to practice different parenting strategies in order to respond exactly to their children growing and development needs; they will overcome the social exclusion becoming active involved in the process of raising and supporting their own children with SN). The project expect a community more inclusive and sensitive to the specific needs of families with children with SN and the university will be recognized as an importante resource for quality knowledge and experience (provider of an evidence‐based program). At the national and international level is expected raising the awareness of the political deciders regarding the specific needs of families of persons with SN. The research conducted within the project draws some implications for family’s life within social environment and it will propose some solutions for intervention to enhance the life quality of these families and their social inclusion, so that the results of the Project could serve as a base for developing an educational policy for parents and families of children with SN. Strategic partnership KA2 Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania ‐ coordinator Lleida University, Spain Politechnik Institute Braganca, Portugal Zagreb University, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Croatia Klaipeda University, Lithuania Bogazici University, Turkey
- Stress and psychological well-being: study in parents of children with special needsPublication . Veiga-Branco, Augusta; Prada, Ana Raquel Russo; Antão, Celeste; Colomeischi, Adina; Ribeiro, Luís Frölén; Galvão, Ana MariaExisting research, mainly conducted with mothers, shows that families parenting a child special needs experience higher levels of emotional distress compared to families with children with a typical development (Delambo, et al, 2011; Lecavalier, et al, 2006, Lee, 2013). This is the first empirical research (to our knowledge) that will be conducted involving both parents of a child with special needs from the northern and interior region of Portugal. This quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional research as the following aims: (i) to analyze the associations between parental stress and parents’ psychological well-being; (ii) to evaluate the influence of individual variables on parents’ psychological wellbeing. Data consisted of parents´ responses on the Portuguese version of the Parental Stress Scale (Mixão, Leal & Maroco, 2007) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (Simões, 1992). The survey will be conducted between the 15th of January and the 15th of March of 2017. Starting from the acquired consciousness about the fact the stress faced by families raising children SN may continue during adolescence and adult life, influencing the quality of family relationships on a long term, results will be presented. In fact, the relevance of the data obtained with families parenting children with special needs will be discussed considering the need of promoting the optimal development of parents with a child with special needs, in a short and long term in time.