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Community care: failure of professionals to meet family needs
Author(s) -
AYER SAM
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1984.tb00172.x
Subject(s) - community service , professional services , psychology , nursing , public relations , medicine , political science
Summary This paper is based on a 3‐year study involving 132 mothers caring for their severely mentally handicapped school children at home. The study shows that many mothers lack awareness of available services. Services are determined by professional perspectives. Many mothers find that available services tend to substitute rather than reinforce their caring capacity. Services are ad hoc and crisis orientated rather than planned and coordinated. Increasing numbers of parents are seeking support through mutual aid and self‐help groups.