The effectiveness of counseling groups in reducing stress of parents of children with learning disabilities

Group Dynamics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 275-286

  Shechtman, Zipora ^a,b   Gilat, Irit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group counseling; Learning disabilities; Parents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CHILD; CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAEL; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MODEL; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARENT COUNSELING; SELF REPORT; SIBLING; STRESS;

EID: 32044471916     PISSN: 10892699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2699.9.4.275     Document Type: Article

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