Spirituality and Parents of Children With Disability: Views of Practitioners
Based on a study of 1,138 practitioners in the field of disability across 12 countries, the author examines the practitioners' views on spirituality for parents of disabled children. Results of the logistic regression analysis showed that the following practitioners were more likely to see spir...
| Published in: | Journal of disability & religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2017]
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| In: |
Journal of disability & religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Disability
B Practitioners B Spirituality B spiritual needs B Parents B Children |
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| Summary: | Based on a study of 1,138 practitioners in the field of disability across 12 countries, the author examines the practitioners' views on spirituality for parents of disabled children. Results of the logistic regression analysis showed that the following practitioners were more likely to see spirituality as an instrument to help parents to cope and build resilience against disability: those from European countries, the United States, Australia, and Canada; those associated with organizations working with issues of physically disabled children and children with sensory disabilities; and Christians and those having higher self-reported spiritual experiences scale scores. For them, prerequisites for spiritual parenting entailed parents' innate spiritual sensibilities and potential. The goals of spiritual interventions for parents are understood as: deconstructing normative notions of ability or disability, acceptance, building resilience, and coping. For practitioners in the field of disability social work, the results support spirituality as a protector variable for parents with disabled children, tapping on their innate spiritual potential and sensibilities, and keeping relational consciousness and deconstruction of the normative as goals of intervention. |
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| ISSN: | 2331-253X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of disability & religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2016.1270178 |