Parenting and Resistance: Strategies in Dealing with Services and Professionals

Parents with Intellectual Disabilities: Past, Present and Futures

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 107-118

  Traustadóttir, Rannveig ^a   Björg Sigurjónsdóttir, Hanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Advocacy in assisting parents with intellectual disabilities to engage with child and family services; Combating discrimination and resisting institutional regimes; Establishing group of parents with intellectual disabilities; Gendered strategies of resistance; Parenting and resistance strategies in dealing with services and professionals; Refusing to accept support and services; Resistance and parents with intellectual disabilities; Struggle for human rights of people with intellectual disabilities; Understanding parents' capacities for resistance moving beyond oppressive conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886221930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470660393.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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