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topic of interest to many researchers, including Dr. Elizabeth Larson.2 When studying parents of children with disabilities, Larson found that the way mothers express contradictory emotions such as grief and joy, or hope and fear, influences their well-being. The great emotional (and spiritual) challenge is to manage the internal tension between loving your child and wanting to erase the disability, between dealing with the incurability while pursuing solutions, and between maintaining hopefulness for the child’s future while being given negative information and battling your own fears. ...more
Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children
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