Mothering Young Children With Disabilities in a Challenging Urban Environment

Abstract

To plan meaningful, effective interventions, occupational therapy practitioners need to understand the context in which mothering occupations occur and to ensure that mothers' caring occupations and social support needs are addressed in the therapeutic partnership.

Fathering Occupations: An Analysis of Narrative Accounts of Fathering Children with Special Needs

“…The term cocreated occupations was used by Lawlor (2003) to describe co-constructed experiences or actions. Olson and Esdaile (2000) described occupations of mothering as being co-created ''with another (their child) as a specific network of activities comprising the mother's everyday life'' (p. 312). In this paper I use co-created occupations in order to maintain focus on the meaningful constructions and experiential components of occupations.…”

“…The concept of co-occupations was originally used within occupational science to describe the significance of occupations for both mothers and children (Pierce, 2009;Price & Stephenson, 2009;Zemke & Clark, 1996). Researchers examining mothering occupations, defined as a cluster of occupations, have focused primarily on the meaningful interactions that occur between mothers and their children (Dunlea, 1996;Fraits-Hunt & Zemke, 1996;Humphry & Corcoran, 2004;Lawlor, 2004;Olson & Esdaile, 2000;Price & Stephenson, 2009). …”

“…Following past research in occupational science, I use the term co-created occupations (Lawlor, 2004;Olson & Esdaile, 2000). The term cocreated occupations was used by Lawlor (2003) to describe co-constructed experiences or actions.…”

Quality of Life, Coping Styles, Stress Levels, and Time Use in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Comparing Single Versus Coupled Households

“…The role of being a mother is time intensive, especially when children have a disability (Olson & Esdaile, 2000). Compared with parents of typically developing children, parents of children with special needs spend longer time in childcare activities (Crowe & Florez, 2006;McCann, Bull, & Winzenberg, 2012).…”

A comparison of mothers' and fathers' experience of parenting stress and attributions for parent–child interaction outcomes

“…Some health professionals have taken a more contextual approach, basing their intervention on the qualitative experiences of the particular target group of their intervention (e.g. Cohn et al, 2000;Olson and Esdaile, 2000). These contextual, qualitative approaches have some theoretical similarities with both the stimulus and memory-dependent constructs of parenting attributions (Bugental and Johnston, 2000;Bugental et al, 1998).…”