Title |
Family networks to improve outcomes in children with intellectual and developmental disorders: a qualitative study
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Published in |
International Journal of Mental Health Systems, February 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1752-4458-8-7 |
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Authors |
Syed Usman Hamdani, Najia Atif, Mahjabeen Tariq, Fareed Aslam Minhas, Zafar Iqbal, Atif Rahman |
Abstract |
There are at least 50 million children with an intellectual or developmental disorder in South Asia. The vast majority of these children have no access to any service and there are no resources to develop such services. We aimed to explore a model of care-delivery for such children, whereby volunteer family members of affected individuals could be organized and trained to form an active, empowered group within the community that, a) using a task-sharing approach, are trained by specialists to provide evidence-based interventions to their children; b) support each other, with the more experienced FaNs i.e. family networks, providing peer-supervision and training to new family members who join the group; and c) works to reduce the stigma associated with the condition. |
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