Parental Cognitive Impairment, Mental Health, and Child Outcomes in a Child Protection Population

Judicial Reliance on Parental IQ in Appellate‐Level Child Welfare Cases Involving Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

“…For example, parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities are more likely to experience financial difficulties and lack of social support, which may in turn impact parenting skills, but this is not directly due to their intellectual disability (Feldman et al . ). Parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities, when provided with evidence‐based behavioural teaching approaches, can acquire new parenting skills and improve their ability to care for their children of varying ages (Feldman ; Wade et al .…”

“…In this atmosphere of conflicting legal directives, there are many poor outcomes for parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their children in child welfare and dependency systems (Reinders ; Feldman et al . ; National Council on Disability, ).…”

A review of recent analyses of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS)

“…Police involvement in investigation 31 Opening for ongoing services 16 Opening for ongoing services 15 Opening for ongoing services 19 Opening for ongoing services 26 Opening for ongoing services [8][9][10][11]38 Opening for ongoing services [12][13][14][15]38 Opening for ongoing services 22 Retained Learning/developmental issues 20 Physical disability/health condition 20 Emotional/behavioural disorders 20 Internalizing disorders 6 Externalizing disorders 6 Presence of harm 6 Child functional impairment 8 …”

A Review of Canadian Mental Health Research on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

“…In a more recent study, Feldman and colleagues (2012) examined the relations among child functioning and contextual, parent, child, and parenting characteristics. Results revealed that low parent support and high parent mental health issues predicted child functioning and that parent mental health mediated the relationship between social support and child outcome (Feldman et al, 2012).…”

“…A more recent area of study has been the mental health of parents with IDD involving researchers from Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta (Aunos, Feldman, & Goupil, 2008;Feldman, McConnell, & Aunos, 2012). Much of this work stems from early intervention research conducted on parents with IDD (Feldman, 2002;Feldman et al, 2004;Feldman & Aunos, 2010;McConnell, Llewellyn, Dalziel, Laidlaw, & Hindmarsh, 2009).…”