Parenting a Child with Learning Disabilities: Mothers' Self-Forgiveness, Well-Being, and Parental Behaviors.
Parenting a child with learning disabilities (LDs) can not only be a fulfilling experience, but also a challenging one which can increase parenting stress as well as impair parenting self-efficacy, parental psychological well-being and interactions with the child. Informed by the parenting three-ter...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 31; no. 9; pp. 2454 - 2472 |
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Sep2022
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