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- Occupational Safety and Health | Research, Education and Case studies on Mental health | Healthcare-Associated Infections | Educational and Community Based Programs | Coronavirus and Mental health issues | Healthcare Research during Coronavirus | Public health and Psychological considerations
Location: Online Event/ Webinar
Session Introduction
Uzma Saleem
Therapy Works Islamabad -Drugs Addiction Rehab Center
Title: Attitude of parents towards their physically handicapped children and perceived family support in these children
Biography:
Uzma Saleem is a clinical psychologist and she is also Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (Advanced to Expert) NLPMP, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming NLP by American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, ABNLP. She is also an emergency medical technician EMT by Pakistan Red Crescent PRC and Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council PHECC, Dublin, Ireland. She is a hypnotherapist, Blue Print by content free Hypnotherapy system, and certification is by Matt Gilbert, Central Training and Therapy, United Kingdom. She has worked in The London Welbeck Hospital, England by helping people in psychological difficulties such as anxiety, depression, phobias and eating disorders .
Abstract:
The research was designed to study the parental attitude towards their physically handicapped children and also the perception of the physically handicapped children about their family support towards their parents. Sample of the study included 30 children, both male and female equally, and 30 parents. A five-point Likert type Parent Attitude Scale developed by Butt (1991) was used to measure the parental attitude towards their physically handicapped children. For children a four-point Family Support Scale developed by Naz (2001) was used to measure the perceived family support of the children separately devised questionnaires, ascertained information for different demographic variables such as age, gender, education and socio-economic status of parents. Responses were statistically analyzed by the means, standard deviations, t-tests, correlations and alpha reliability coefficient and ANOVA were also calculated to check the reliability of the instruments. Research finding showed the high reliability estimates of both scales. Results also indicated that family support was a crucial factor in the improvement of the perception of physically handicapped child. The scores of both the scales were inversely correlated with each other. These findings suggest that, the parents over guardedness and concern generally lowers perceived family support of such child. They perhaps want to gain more autonomy. The amount of care and over protectiveness may lead to low self-esteem and developed the learned helplessness in such children. The study tried to stress the need for further research in the field of physically handicapped children and their parents’ psychology in order to promote better relationships among them. The suggestion was also mentioned.
Ansa Qurat-ul-ain
University Of Central Punjab, Pakistan
Title: Work stress and psychological well-being of mental health practitioners during covid-19: how cognitive flexibility mitigate the effects of work stress
