Estrategias de afrontamiento de los padres ante el diagnóstico de Síndrome de Down.

Abstract

Down syndrome is one of the disabilities that is one of the most visible and that presents a series of characteristics that allow its awareness both at a social, familiar and educational level. Most of the research on this disability focuses on the care given to the person with this syndrome, the social and educational expectations and their development in general. However, very little has been said about families, the way in which they face the diagnosis from the moment it is made known to them and the repercussions it causes on the family system. The goal of this research is to identify those strategies most commonly used by parents to cope with this situation, the fact of having a child with Down syndrome. On the other hand, it aims to focus on how these strategies have helped them to achieve a certain degree of resilience.