Parenting stress among mentally retarded children with normal control

Perceived Control and Learned Helplessness Among Mentally Retarded and Nonretarded Children: A Developmental Analysis

Learned helplessness is produced by successive failures and by feedback attributing failure to uncontrollable causes. Retarded children appear to encounter both causal factors frequently and may thus be susceptible to helplessness. To test this possibility, children of low, average, and high IQ at three mental age levels were administered a response-initiation measure, a puzzle-repetition measu...

Prevalence of obesity among mentally retarded adults.

Public attitudes toward mentally retarded children.

The recent trend toward integrating mentally retarded children in the community and public school warrants examination of public attitudes toward these children. Factor analysis of equestionnaire responses of 430 adults revealed for factors underlying attitudes toward retarded children: positive stereotype, segregation in the community, segregation in the classroom, and perceived physical and i...

The Effectiveness of Family Life Education in Reducing parental stress of Mothers Mentally Retarded Children

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The Mentally Retarded

The crucial factor involved in habilitating the mentally retarded, or other individuals, for produc­ tive employment is not, as is often erroneously as­ sumed, the decision concerning the vocation that the client may succeed in, but the position that is taken concerning this unique person. In this re­ gard, an analysis of the habilitation process indicates that at each decision-making point a p...