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The Effects of a Family-Focused Transition Program on the Self-Determination of the High School Students with Disabilities, Their Parents’ Stress, Parenting Efficacy, and Family Empowerment

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2010, 11(3), pp.77-101
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

정지희 1 Jiyeon Park 2

1경은학교
2이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of a family-focused transition program on the self-determination of the high school students with disabilities, and their parents’ stress, parenting efficacy, and family empowerment. Participants were 28 families of high school students with disabilities. Fourteen families were assigned to the experimental group and the other 14 families were assigned to the control group. The students and parents in the experimental group attended a total of 13 sessions of the program for 13 weeks while those in the control group did not. Independent samples t tests were conducted to see if there was any difference between groups in the dependent variables. The results of the study were as follows: (a) self-determination level of the students in the experimental group increased significantly higher than that of the students in the control group, (b) there was no difference between two groups in the parents’ stress and parenting efficacy, and (c) family empowerment level in the experimental group increased significantly higher than that of the control group. Finally, discussions of the results and limitations of the study were presented.

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