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| Title: | "And Still We Rise": A Qualitative Study of Strengths, Challenges, and Needs of African American Fathers Parenting Children with Special Needs |
| Authors: | Bridgers, Jr, James Cullen |
| Advisors: | Randolph, Suzanne M |
| Department/Program: | Family Studies |
| Type: | Dissertation |
| Sponsors: | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) |
| Keywords: | Health Sciences, Human Development (0758)
Health Sciences, Human Development (0758)
African American Fathers; Children with Special Needs |
| Issue Date: | 27-Apr-2007 |
| Abstract: | An ecological systems/risk-resiliency framework (Bronfenbrenner, 1986) was used to examine selected issues that have the potential for informing the development of culturally sensitive family interventions that focus on the strengths, challenges, and needs of African American fathers of children with special needs. This study attempted to fill gaps in the literature by examining strengths and resiliency within these fathers, and their involvement with and parenting of young children with special needs. This qualitative study included 30 African American fathers who regularly attended a male caregivers' support group at a pediatric hospital for children with special needs in Washington, DC. Four focus groups and nine face-to-face, follow-up interviews were conducted to validate and refine study themes. Verbatim transcript data were analyzed using qualitative software (N6/NUD*IST) to code and generate recurring themes.
Results indicated recurring themes for strengths (redefined b... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6900 |
| Appears in Collections: | Family Science Theses and Dissertations
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