Giesbers Sanne A H, Tournier Tess, Hendriks Lex, Hastings Richard P, Jahoda Andrew, Embregts Petri J C M
Tranzo, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Dichterbij Innovation and Science, Gennep, The Netherlands.
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil. 2019 Jan;32(1):94-105. doi: 10.1111/jar.12512. Epub 2018 Jul 13.
Informal supportive networks of individuals with intellectual disability have become increasingly important. The aim of this paper is to describe how the Family Network Method - Intellectual Disability (FNM-ID) offers a way to gather the perspective of people with mild intellectual disability on their family support.
The FNM is designed to explore how individuals define their family contexts, and more specifically how they perceive existing supportive relationships in these contexts.
By carefully piloting ways of questioning people with mild intellectual disability, systematic adaptations were made to the original FNM. Data obtained by the FNM-ID can be analysed using social network analysis. Thereby, the FNM-ID provides rich, theoretically significant information on emotional support in the family networks of individuals with mild intellectual disability.
The FNM-ID is a useful and successfully adapted tool for other researchers and professionals to systematically explore the family support experiences of individuals with mild intellectual disability.
智障人士的非正式支持网络变得越来越重要。本文旨在描述家庭网络方法——智障(FNM-ID)如何提供一种途径,以收集轻度智障人士对其家庭支持的看法。
FNM旨在探索个体如何界定其家庭环境,更具体地说,他们如何看待这些环境中现有的支持性关系。
通过仔细试点询问轻度智障人士的方式,对原始的FNM进行了系统调整。FNM-ID获得的数据可使用社会网络分析进行分析。因此,FNM-ID提供了关于轻度智障人士家庭网络中情感支持的丰富、具有理论意义的信息。
FNM-ID是一种有用且成功调整的工具,可供其他研究人员和专业人员系统地探索轻度智障人士的家庭支持经历。