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A Heuristic Inquiry Into The Stress That Home Educators Experience, Jennifer Rathmell
A Heuristic Inquiry Into The Stress That Home Educators Experience, Jennifer Rathmell
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the stress that families incur when they choose home education as their primary educational method. Extensive studies exist regarding stress that traditional education teacher's experience. However, the research on stress experienced by parents who are the primary educators of their children is limited. This study endeavored to provide insight and add to the home-education body of research. Using a heuristic inquiry research design, nine home educators participated in four data collection methods: a homeschool questionnaire, The Occupational Stress Inventory - Revised (OSI-R), a focus group, and individual interviews. …
Stress Levels And Development: A Phenomenology Of Autistic Children And Their Parents, Tiffany R. Wiggs
Stress Levels And Development: A Phenomenology Of Autistic Children And Their Parents, Tiffany R. Wiggs
Senior Honors Theses
Being a parent means taking on both the joys and struggles that come with it. When a parent discovers that his or her child has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the level of stress changes. It could be helpful to discover the severity of change that the stresses involved in parenting a child with ASD brings to the parent/child relationship and what effect this has on a child’s physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual development. To attempt to answer these questions, six parents were interviewed. Findings suggested that structure in daily living improves the quality of the child/parent relationship …