Dodds Robin L, Singer George H S
Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil. 2018 May;31(3):435-444. doi: 10.1111/jar.12422. Epub 2017 Oct 24.
To examine selection criteria for Parent-to-Parent support parents trained to provide support to other parents of children with disabilities.
Ten leaders of Parent-to-Parent programmes participated in telephone interviews to explore attributes associated with parents selected to be trained as support parents.
Qualitative analysis reveals parents deemed "ready" to become support parents, build relationships, exhibit positivity, build capacities, have good communication skills and a future orientation and feel the need to give back. An additional set of attributes we have named, "red flags" are associated with parents not suitable to provide support are also presented.
Parent-to-Parent support parents are informally identified by a set of characteristics that can be operationalized for screening purposes. Findings provide support for the positive influence of the peer support relationship and identify the need for a measure of parent "readiness" to assist in the recruitment of quality support parents for the Parent-to-Parent organization.
研究为残疾儿童家长提供支持的“家长对家长”支持项目中，对接受培训以向其他家长提供支持的家长的选拔标准。
“家长对家长”项目的十位负责人参与了电话访谈，以探究与被选为支持家长的培训对象相关的特质。
定性分析表明，被视为“准备好”成为支持家长的人具备建立人际关系、展现积极性、提升能力、拥有良好沟通技巧和未来导向以及有回馈意愿等特质。此外，还列出了一组我们称为“危险信号”的与不适合提供支持的家长相关的特质。
“家长对家长”支持项目的家长是通过一系列可用于筛选目的的特征被非正式确定的。研究结果为同伴支持关系的积极影响提供了支持，并表明需要一种衡量家长“准备程度”的方法，以协助为“家长对家长”组织招募高质量的支持家长。
