Afrontamiento de padres de familia ante la discapacidad cognitiva de su hija.

Abstract

The objective of this research work was to identify the degree of coping of families in the face of their daughter's cognitive disability, which allows parents to recognize, acquire and strengthen strategies and tools that facilitate the acceptance of said disability and the management of Same through parenting. The methodology implemented was qualitative phenomenological, whose universe and participants were four nuclear families, with chosen through convenience sampling, where the main criterion of choice was that they had children with cognitive disabilities. Through the results found, it was concluded that the family's conception of disability is determined by explanations of a religious and medical nature. The main changes in the family context are the readjustment of roles and responsibilities, as well as changes in family interactions and social activities, directly related to the responsibility and pressure required by child care. As well as the coping tools, behaviors and strategies that parents have to deal with their child's disability, they are mostly functional.