Coping behavior: Implications for disabled infants and toddlers

Williamson, G. Gordon; Zeitlin, Shirley; Szczepanski, Margery

doi:10.1002/1097-0355(198921)10:1<1::aid-imhj2280100102>3.0.co;2-c

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“…Studies have found that young children with disabilities tend to respond (i.e. cope) less effectively than their counterparts without disabilities (see, for example, Williamson et al 1989, Zeitlin andWilliamson 1990).…”

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Relevance of the Pediatric Powered Wheelchair Screening Test for children with cerebral palsy

Furumasu¹,

Guerette²,

Tefft³

2004

Dev Med Child Neurol

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In a previous study we developed a cognitive assessment battery called the Pediatric Powered Wheelchair Screening Test (PPWST) to help clinicians determine a young child's readiness to drive a powered wheelchair. The current multicenter study sought to determine: (1) whether the PPWST is appropriate for use in a population of children with cerebral palsy (CP) who use joysticks to drive their wheelchair; (2) whether two additional factors (symbolic representation and coping) would increase the predictive power of the PPWST for this group and for children with orthopedic or neuromuscular disabilities only; and (3) whether the test was appropriate for children with severe motor impairments who use switches to control their wheelchair. Fifty children (27 males, 23 females) between the ages of 21 months and 6 years 11 months participated. Twenty-six children (mean age 4 years 4 months, SD 15 months) had triplegic or tetraplegic CP and 24 children (mean age 27 months, SD 5 months) had orthopedic or neuromuscular disabilities. Sixty-nine per cent of children had some limited form of mobility (such as rolling or scooting) but none was a functional ambulator. Each child was assessed with the PPWST and with measures of symbolic representation and coping. After six wheelchair training sessions, driving ability was scored. The PPWST was found to be predictive of functional driving ability for children with CP who used a joystick to control their wheelchair. Assessment of symbolic representation skills increased the predictive power for this group but not for children with orthopedic or neuromuscular disabilities; coping scores did not increase the predictive power for either group. The PPWST accounted for only 20% of the variance in overall driving skills for switch users, and thus is not yet considered an adequate screening device for this group. The PPWST is designed to help clinicians determine whether a child currently has the specific cognitive skills found to be related to powered wheelchair driving but is not intended to be used exclusively to determine whether or not a child is ultimately a candidate for powered mobility.

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Relevance of the Pediatric Powered Wheelchair Screening Test for children with cerebral palsy

Furumasu¹,

Guerette²,

Tefft³

2004

Dev Med Child Neurol

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“…Coping is defined as an active process of adapting to the demands of the environment by drawing on personal resources and strategies as well as other external resources that are available to an individual (Moos, 1976; Williamson, Zeitlin, & Szczepanski, 1989). Coping, then, is conceptualized as a "proxy variable" for social-emotional functioning or competence.…”

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The relationship of adolescent mothers' expectations, knowledge, and beliefs to their young children's coping behavior

Stoiber

Houghton

1993

Infant Ment. Health J.

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Developmental researchers have begun to explore parental cognitions in an effort to better understand adolescent parenthood. However, most research on adolescent mothers has failed to relate cognitions of the mother to the child's functioning. To extend the research on adolescent‐parent families, we examined the association between adolescent mothers' knowledge of child development, parental expectations, and child‐rearing beliefs to their infants' or toddlers' coping behavior. Trained observers rated children on the three subscales of the Early Coping Inventory–Sensorimotor, Reactive Behavior, and Self‐Initiated Behavior. The findings indicated that the adolescent mothers' self‐reports of their expectations for their own and their children's behaviors and emotions accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in objective ratings of the children's coping behavior in the sensorimotor and reactive behavior domains. Adolescent mothers who reported more positive, more realistic, and more mature expectations about parenting, children, and the parent‐child relationship had children who were rated to display more adaptive and effective sensorimotor and reactive behavior coping capacities. An interaction between the adolescent mothers' knowledge and beliefs significantly predicted self‐initiated child behaviors. Implications of the findings include the importance of exploring a “good match” in adolescent mother‐child relationships.

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“…The final coping behavior assessment reviewed in the literature was the Early Coping Inventory (ECI) (Williamson, Zeitlin, & Szczepanski, 1989). The ECI was designed to measure the presence or absence of coping behaviors in infants and toddlers in 3 categories of behavior (sensorimotor organization, reactive behavior, and self-initiated behavior) in which each of these categories includes items identified in research literature as highly relevant to coping.…”

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“…The ECI was designed to measure the presence or absence of coping behaviors in infants and toddlers in 3 categories of behavior (sensorimotor organization, reactive behavior, and self-initiated behavior) in which each of these categories includes items identified in research literature as highly relevant to coping. Williamson et al (1989) studied the implications of this inventory in the assessment of disabled infants and toddlers ranging in age from 4-34 months of age and compared the results to non-disabled infants and toddlers. The findings were not surprising, the disabled infants and toddlers did not demonstrate effective coping behaviors compared to the non-disabled group in the study.…”

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Pilot study : investigating child life support sessions as a tool for retinopathy of prematurity infants undergoing ROP eye exams

Livingstone¹

2021

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The aim of this study was to access the coping of premature infants during ROP eye exams both before and after receiving 3 child life support sessions. This assessment used the adapted COMFORT behavior scale as a reliable and validated standardized assessment tool. An experienced ROP clinic nurse and a clinic fellow made paired observations during 2 routine ROP eye exams to record infant coping. 9 infants were consented into the study and 2 infants were found to be at risk for ROP and therefore continued in the study. The other 7 infants were found to be not at risk. The results of the pre and post test coping results demonstrated a drop in distress and an increase in each infants coping during the ROP eye exam. The results suggest that Child Life support sessions do increase and enhance premature infant coping during ROP eye exams.

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Coping behavior: Implications for disabled infants and toddlers

Cited by 16 publications

References 15 publications

Relevance of the Pediatric Powered Wheelchair Screening Test for children with cerebral palsy

Relevance of the Pediatric Powered Wheelchair Screening Test for children with cerebral palsy

The relationship of adolescent mothers' expectations, knowledge, and beliefs to their young children's coping behavior

Pilot study : investigating child life support sessions as a tool for retinopathy of prematurity infants undergoing ROP eye exams

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