title: A theory of transformed parenting: parenting a child with developmental delay/mental retardation.
abstract: The purpose of this grounded theory study was to examine the parenting process when a child has developmental delay including mental retardation (DD/MR). The sample consisted of parents (29 mothers, 13 fathers) of 31 children with DD/MR. A semistructured interview guide was used to collect data during 1- to 1.5-hour interviews. The basic social process of Transformed Parenting emerged from the data. Transformed Parenting consists of an initial entrance process and a subsequent ongoing performance process. The entrance process encompasses receiving the child's diagnosis and responding to the child's diagnosis. The performance process consists of three areas: reality construing processes, contextual processes, and operating processes. At the core of the reality construing process is construing reality loops, which describes the ongoing process of interpreting the child's problems.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City.
authors.forename: R Y
authors.initials: RY
authors.lastname: Seideman
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Kleine
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011582:Psychological Theory