Special Education and Disability Studies (SEDS) faculty, Drs. Elisabeth Rice and Karen Ihrig, published an article with SEDS alumnae Margaux Brown, Kandace Hoppin, Amy Srsic, Adelaide Kelly-Massoud and doctoral student Melissa Boston in the Journal of Child and Families Studies. The article's title is "Raising Girls with Emotional and Behavioral Challenges: An Exploration of Caregiver Perceptions."
Highlights of the article include:
- Caregivers of youth with emotional and behavioral challenges experience parental stress and caregiver strain; unique experiences of caregivers of girls are explored here.
- Researchers interviewed caregivers of 16 girls with emotional and behavioral challenges from urban, suburban, and rural areas.
- Caregivers perceived their daughters’ behaviors to be more complex than what is described in the literature as an externalizing-internalizing continuum.
- Participants reported that schools failed to correctly identify their daughters and provided reactive rather than proactive services. Therapy and medication were also helpful interventions.
- Researchers explored coping among these caregivers of girls with emotional and behavioral challenges.