Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the research regarding family responses to a handicapped child using family stress theory as a framework. It focuses upon family coping and family stress and describes the factors, which facilitate family adjustment to a handicapped child. While the stress experienced by mothers, fathers, and siblings of developmentally handicapped children is widely documented in case studies and retrospective personal accounts, the latest research focuses increasingly upon the relationships between family resources, coping strategies, and stress associated with a handicapped child. With the growing need for community based support systems for families of developmentally handicapped children across the life-span, the data gathered from research that takes a multidimensional perspective should be of great value to professionals, caregivers, and parents as the complex relationships among family stress, coping, and adaptation are unravelled.
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