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Professor Lisa Marks WoolfsonSchool of Psychological Sciences and Health
The influence of societal stereotypes on attitudes and behaviour of parents and teachers towards children with ID
Parents tolerate problematic behaviour as being part of child’s disability
Daytime/night-time behaviour problems
Parents overprotect child
Passive, dependent behaviour
Parents of a disabled child should make up to her for the tragedy of not being able-bodied
Disability is a medical problem
Disabled people are dependent and need protection and help from others
The disabled child will always be dependent on her parents for help and their role is to protect her from any challenges, whether physical, social or emotional
Parents of a disabled child will have to cope with developmental, health and behavioural problems that are an inevitable part of the medical condition
Parents of a disabled child cannot change much about the situation themselves. Professional interventions are required for this.
Disability is a tragedy
Woolfson, L. (2004). Family well-being and disabled children: a psychosocial model of disability-related child behaviour problems. British Journal of Health Psychology, 9, 1-13.
Johnson et al 2009 ADHDWhittingham et al 2006 ASDRobinson & Richdale 2004 ID
Keenan et al 2007 ID
Disability viewed as cause of behaviour problems
But what I learned was that if I say ‘get off the chair’ and I wait…what others would say too long, she will get off the chair. And I said to the teachers, ‘whatever you ask her to do, wait more than seems polite, and you’ll often find she will respond’. And they did use that because I think it takes a long time. People with Down Syndrome, they can’t process quickly.
Jacobs, M., Woolfson, L., & Hunter, S. (2015). Attributions of stability, control and responsibility: How parents of children with ID view their child’s problematic behaviour and its causes. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. Early View.
internal stable uncontrollable causes
Right at this moment, things are definitely getting worse and there is
no light at the end of the tunnel.
It’s not like if you have a typical child, you will say ‘oh he will grow
out of it’.
Jacobs, M., Woolfson, L., & Hunter, S. (2015). Attributions of stability, control and responsibility: How parents of children with ID view their child’s problematic behaviour and its causes. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. Early View.
Group x parent controllability
Woolfson, L., Taylor, R., & Mooney, L. (2010). Parental attributions of controllability as amoderator of the relationship between developmental disability and behaviour problems. Child: Care, Health and Development, 37, 184–194.
reframing
I think before I would have wrapped her up in cotton wool. I treat her differently now than I would have.
Woolfson, L. (1999 ). Using a model of transactional developmental regulation to evaluate the effectiveness of an early intervention programme for preschool children with motor impairments. Child: Care, Health and Development, 25, 55-79.
If she wanted anything, everything was put on
hold, including her brother…..
I realized we would have to change our behaviour
and told my husband.
Parenting Parenting paradoxparadox
Woolfson, L. (2005). Disability and the parenting paradox. The Psychologist, 18, 421-422.
Woolfson, L., Grant, E., & Campbell, L. (2007). A comparison of special, general andsupport teachers’ controllability and stability attributions for children’sdifficulties in learning. Educational Psychology, 27, 295-306.
Controllability interaction plot
Support needs
no special supportreceives support
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3.4
3.2
3.0
2.8
2.6
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Teacher group
mainstream
class teacher
special school class
teacher
mainstream learning
support teacher
Main effect for support needs F(1,96) = 44.18, p = .001
Group x support needs interaction effect F(2,96) = 4.24, p = .017
