Am J Psychiatry 1978; 135:1344-1349
Copyright © 1978 by American Psychiatric Association
Coping styles of 34 adolescents with cerebral palsy
KK Minde
The author presents a follow-up study of 34 children with cerebral palsy.
Eight years previously 23 of these children were attending a special school
for handicapped children, and 11 were attending regular schools. The author
evaluated the children and their families through formal and informal
interviews and by administering parent and teacher rating scales of the
children's behavior. He found that the development of these children
between the ages of 10 and 14 was highlighted by their increased awareness
and their parents' awareness of the permanence of their handicap and their
consequent search for personal and, ultimately, occupational identity and
their parents' emotional withdrawal.
