title: Empowering parents of children with special needs.
abstract: Partnership and empowerment are very much in vogue. In this paper the authors question whether the rhetoric of partnership matches the reality as experienced by families of children with special needs. Research in this area is reviewed and models of good practice are examined.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Darbyshire
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Morrison
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000451:nursing*; D016294:Models, Nursing; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D011209:Power, Psychological