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Poor home, poor parent

The process is slow because the burn patient’s slow recovery and rehabilitation can cause persistent family distress, stimulated by constant reminders of the traumatic event such as clinic visits or the patient’s visible disfigurement. Chronic distress can also occur in reaction to continued demands on parents’ coping resources, such as financial concerns, the patient’s rehabilitative exercises or the need to help with the often painful application of pressure garments.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

For some children with burns, a variety of psychological factors can make the burn trauma especially devastating, for example, many children who sustain burn injuries come from low income homes and have depressed mothers with poor parenting skills who are unable to aid the child in coping. Adolescents with emotionally distressed mothers, show a markedly poorer psychosocial adjustment.

 

Burn injuries are more common among families of the lower social classes, where poverty, poor housing, inferior diet and overcrowding interact and can lead to sudden tragedy, particularly in the one-parent family.

Positive psychological adjustment happens most easily with greater family cohesion, independence and moreexpressiveness within the family. This will be more difficult for a child in a famUy with social problems and lack of family commitment and cohesion. The worst psychosoctal adjustment will be in a family environment characterised by conflict and diminished cohesion, which can also be predictive of alcoholism, delinquency and other disturbances.
By Bronwen Jones and Charissa Bloomberg
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Page Last Modified: 23 July 2004 9:27am

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