성인기 진입 발달장애인 부모의 전환기 효능감 개선을 위한 고찰: ‘Freeman 모델’의 개념과 함의를 중심으로

Abstract

This study introduced the ‘Freeman Model’ proven as evidence-based practice in overseas health care fields and examined the concept and domestic implications, with the purpose of improving the transition efficacy of parents with a person with developmental disabilities entering adulthood. For this, first, the concept of efficacy of parents of a person with developmental disabilities was evoked and the trends in a total of 19 related previous studies were analyzed and synthesized, and their needs to support transition efficacy were confirmed. Next, as an alternative to satisfying these needs, studies on the conceptualization of 'continuity of care', called the Freeman model, were compared and analyzed, and it was found that this approach fits the needs for support to enhance the transition efficacy of parents with developmentally disabled person entering adulthood. Lastly, based on the concept of 'continuity of care', implications regarding support for improving the transition efficacy of the parents were suggested. This study is significant in that it is an early study that attempted a new continuity approach and provided field implications in our society, to improve the transition efficacy of parents with developmentally disabled youth entering adulthood.