Training Parents in Behavioral Medicine Techniques for the Chronic Care of Their Developmentally Disabled Children

Abstract

we briefly review the literature on parent training of their developmentally disabled children in the following areas as they are concerned with health issues: developmental gain, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and pressure sores look at work aimed at discovering the effective components of packages designed to train parents and the effects of training and behavior change on the families in question clinical significance and implications of this literature are considered issues in developing such programs are discussed / future research directions (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)