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datestamp: 2020-04-23 05:39:34
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creators_name: Cigarini, Anna
title: Entering the child’s inner world”: Italian parents experiences of raising a child with Autism disorder
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: public
abstract: The research aimed at investigating the caregiving experience of parents raising a child with autism disorder. In-depth interviews were used to discuss about the diagnostic process; the challenges parents faced in their caregiving route; their coping strategies,and the benefits, if any, they derived from social support networks. The analysis produced three core themes which related to: entering the child’s inner world; making meaning out of autism; and the family’s social experience. Being the parent of a child with autism was found to be a complex and dynamic process. However, among the parents’ accounts there were some common stages that constituted key points in their process of raising their child. These stages relates to: making sense of the child’s symptoms, receiving their child’s diagnosis, acknowledging the child’s uniqueness and advocating for his inclusion.
date: 2015
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: POPST
tutors_name: Bailey, Ajay
keywords_local: coping process,
keywords_local: caregiving experience,
keywords_local: child’s diagnosis,
keywords_local: autism,
keywords_local: disability,
keywords_local: parents’ adaptation
language_iso: en
titleorder: Entering the child’s inner world”: Italian parents experiences of raising a child with Autism disorder
dbi: 55d5ce8369f99
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date_of_import: 2020-04-22
imported_from: http://scripties.frw.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/root/ma/PopSt/2015/acigarini/
import_source_file: theses-frw-20200422132454-55d5ce8369f99.xml
date_issued: 2015-01-01
description_company: University of Groningen
citation:   Cigarini, Anna  (2015) Entering the child’s inner world”: Italian parents experiences of raising a child with Autism disorder.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/2455/1/Cigarini_Anna_Master_Thesis.docx