A family systems look at the developmentally disabled.
In summary, families of the developmentally disabled need to be looked at in terms of their system wholeness. Interacting elements of the subsystems have unique concerns and coping styles. Psychiatric nurses are in a key position in the mental health scene to assess these coping styles and to offer compassion, understanding, knowledge, and needed resources to assist these overburdened families to move in the direction of openness, growth, and health.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D012801:Sibling Relations