Journal of Down Syndrome & Chromosome Abnormalities
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Department of Health Systems, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom

Publications

• Research Article   
  Immediate and Delayed Psychosocial Effects of Down?s Syndrome on Parents from Diagnosis to the First Post-Natal Year
  Author(s): Elizabeth McCulloch*
  
  Down’s syndrome is a common condition seen in society, with 1 in 1000 babies in the UK being born every year. Although seems common and known by a large proportion of the population, the effects on the family remain fairly hidden. Six major studies have provided evidence for how parents feel at the immediate stage of diagnosis and how their feelings evolve as their child develops. The theories of social acceptance and guilt have been applied to down’s syndrome to help explain how parents come to term with their child’s diagnosis and how the psychology of disability effects parents on a daily basis. Main findings include; parents having feelings of shock and disbelief at the time of diagnosis, parents would have liked to be informed differently to how they were and parents often receive most of their effects from third-parties through the form of .. View More»
  

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