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Background: Family caregivers of youth with DD and behavioral health issues experience the highest level of caregiving strain. Many must also deal with their own or another family member’s chronic health condition, which may place them at additional risk for poor outcomes.

Caring for a child with a developmental disability can be stressful and may be particularly difficult when additional stressors are added.

Communication about one’s grief is both essential and complicated. We employ communication privacy management theory to examine how bereaved individuals manage the revelation and concealment of private information about the death of a parent or sibling.

Discussing grief can be uncomfortable for both the bereaved and the confidant, and bereaved individuals may seek to control how information about grief is shared.

In this, study, the authors examined the moderating effects of partnership on the relationship
between services and supports adequacy and family quality of life (FQOL) for families of
children with deaf-blindness ages birth to 21. A social-ecological approach enabled examining

Services (e.g., educational, social, health programs) and social supports are very important for the well-being of families of youth with disabilities.

Parent education programs have the potential to enhance child outcomes; however, some programs are more likely than others to lead to these positive outcomes.