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Empowerment Status of Families Whose Children Have Serious Emotional Disturbance and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderNirbhay N. Singh, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Medical College of Virginia, a clinical professor of psychology at the Virginia Commonwealth University, and director of research at the Commonwealth Institute for Child and Family Studies in Richmond. His current interests are in systemic models of human behavior that integrate science and consciousness. Address: Nirbhay N. Singh, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980489, Richmond, VA 23298–0489.
W. John Curtis, MA, is a research associate at the Commonwealth Institute for Child and Family Studies. His research interests are in mental health services delivery systems for children and their families, resilience of children at risk for emotional disorders, and in the general area of developmental psychopathology.
Cynthia R. Ellis, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research interests are in pediatric psychopharmacology, behavioral pediatrics, developmental disabilities, and ecobehavioral analysis.
Hollis A. Wechsler, BA, is a research assistant at the Commonwealth Institute for Child and Family Studies. Her research interests are in adolescent perceptions of mental health services, psychopharmacology, and in the general area of counseling psychology.
AL M. Best, PhD, is an associate professor of psychiatry and biostatistics at Virginia Commonwealth University. His primary professional interest is in general linear models analysis.
Robert Cohen, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and director of the Virginia Treatment Center for Children in Richmond. He is interested in systems of care for children and adolescents with SED and their families. Empowerment is a critical indicator of a family's ability to access and effectively utilize services to achieve desired outcomes for themselves and their children. The empowerment status of two groups of families, those with children who had serious emotional disturbance (SED) alone and those with children who had SED combined with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), were investigated. The Family Empowerment Scale (FES) was completed by a sample of 228 families. In addition, these families provided demographic data concerning family composition, race, education, income, membership in a parent support group, and the mental health status of their children. The demographic variables were entered into a multivariate analysis of variance model to predict the empowerment status of families across the four subscales of the FES. Statistically significant correlations were obtained between family empowerment and membership in a parent support group, mental health status of the child (SED alone versus SED with ADHD), gender of the respondent, and respondent education. The results indicated that membership in a parent support group was a strong predictor of family empowerment, particularly of the systems advocacy and knowledge dimensions of empowerment. The results of this study can be used by mental health services providers for designing services that maximize family empowerment.
Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 5, No. 4,
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