SOCIOEMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PARENTING STRESS IN WILLIAMS-BEUREN-SYNDROME

Authors
SARIMSKI K
Citation
K. Sarimski, SOCIOEMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PARENTING STRESS IN WILLIAMS-BEUREN-SYNDROME, Monatsschrift fur Kinderheilkunde, 144(8), 1996, pp. 838-842
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics
Journal title
Monatsschrift fur Kinderheilkunde → ACNP
ISSN journal
00269298
Volume
144
Issue
8
Year of publication
1996
Pages
838 - 842
Database
ISI
SICI code
0026-9298(1996)144:8<838:SDAPSI>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
45 parents of Williams-Beuren-syndrome children in preschool and schoo l age describe behavioral patterns and parenting stress by psychologic al questionnaires. Characteristic features are over-friendliness with strangers, hyperacusis, stubborness, overactivity and selective eating habits. 75 % of school aged and 2/3 of preschool aged children are cl assified as behaviorally disturbed. Maternal interactional stress in p arenting is increased.