Stress in communication in families taking care about persons after coma awakening

Abstract

The article presents the results of the pilot research, which reveals the communication in a family taking care of their adult children after awakening from coma. The research is sponsored by Erasmus+ project <em>“Links United for Coma Awakenings through Sport” </em>No. 557075-EPP-1-2014-1-IT-SPO-SCP. Analysing the results of family communication and coping with stress qualitative research was applied. The results show that family members taking care about their adult children awakening after coma experience a different level of stress. Communication peculiarities reflect the lack of communication skills. The ways to cope with stress in the communication process are individual and based on self-realization and meeting of emotional needs of the family

Images of own Future of Mothers Having Children with Disabilities

“…Adults' behaviour is changed because their child condition. Families with disabled children face problems that cannot be copied by the parents without external help: interactions with their social environment are disrupted; their circle of relations is limited by close relatives, specialists; the parents become anxious and distressed because their children show developmental retardation in comparison with peers; such parents often do not have necessary knowledge on disabled children psychology and pedagogy and experience of cooperation with psychologists in the early stages of children's development (Barlow & Ellard, 2006;Home, 2002;Miliūnienė, Radzevičienė, & Vuranok, 2016;Pelentsov, 2015). In particular, the subject of analysis includes difficulties and obstacles that mothers having children with developmental disabilities must overcome, because namely mother, as a rule, become responsible for childcare.…”